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If you don’t know the blues there’s no point in picking up the guitar and playing rock and roll or any other form of popular music.

Keith Richards

Poison’s not bad. It’s a matter of how much.
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Bad Poison Quantity
Rock and roll ain’t nothing but jazz with a hard backbeat.
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Hard Music Rock Roll
When you are growing up there are two institutional places that affect you most powerfully: the church, which belongs to God, and the public library, which belongs to you.
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Affect Belong Growth Library Place Yourself
Everybody starts by imitating their heroes. For me it was Chuck Berry and Muddy Waters.
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Heroes Imitation Myself Start
The public library is the great equaliser.
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Greatness Library One Liner Public
I achieved everything I wanted to achieve by being in the Rolling Stones and making records.
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Achievement Myself Record
It’s a privilege just to wake up to a new day.
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Day Gratitude Wake Up
Everyone talks about rock these days; the problem is they forget about the roll.
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Music Problem Roll Talk
It’s an addiction and addiction is something I should know something about.
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Addiction Known Myself
I’m free of hypochondria– although I’ve got everything else.
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Freedom Myself Sick
It’s great to be here. It’s great to be anywhere.
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Existence Gratitude Greatness
And then I think we realized, like any young guys, that blues are not learned in a monastery. You’ve got to go out there and get your heart broke and then come back and then you can sing the blues.
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Blue Learning Monastery Realize Sing Thinking
George Jones is a national treasure and should be treated accordingly. A unique style so often emulated even inadvertently.
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National Treasure Unique
If you are going to get wasted, then get wasted elegantly.
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Alcohol Wasted Yourself
Music is a necessity. After food, air, water and warmth, music is the next necessity of life.
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Life Music Necessary Need
What is life but playing with time?
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Life Play Time

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