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I mean, give me a guitar, give me a piano, give me a broom and string, I wouldn’t get bored anywhere.

Keith Richards

I consider my job [being a musician] is to have a little idea and nurture it and put it in some form that everybody else can understand and then sort of pass it on. It’s really a passing through. In other words, you receive and you transmit.
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Ideas Job Myself Nurture Understand Word
You don’t find a style. A style finds you.
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Finding Style Yourself
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
Rock and Roll: Music for the neck downwards.
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Music Neck Rock Role
Anything you throw yourself into, you better get yourself out of.
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Better Throw Yourself
I never plan anything, which is probably the difference between Mick and myself. Mick needs to know what he’s gonna do tomorrow and I’m just happy to wake up to see who’s hanging around. Mick’s rock and I’m roll.
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Difference Known Myself Planning
It’s one thing to play a Muddy Waters song. It’s another thing to play with him.
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Himself Play
I was in awe sometimes listening to Mick Taylor . Everything was there in his playing – the melodic touch, a beautiful sustain and a way of reading a song.
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Beautiful Listening Reading Song Touch
I have no idea what the audience makes of me.
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Audience Ideas Myself
Guitar is easy, all it takes is 5 fingers, 6 strings and 1 a**hole.
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Guitar Instrument Musician
But I’m not here just to make records and money. I’m here to say something and to touch other people, sometimes in a cry of desperation: “Do you know this feeling?
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Desperate Feeling Money People Record Touch Yourself
The idea of retiring is like killing yourself. It’s almost like Hari Kari. I intend to live to a 100 and go down in history.
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History Ideas Myself Retirement
Love has sold more songs than you’ve had hot dinners.
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Food Love Song Yourself
If you’re cool, you don’t know nothing about it. It just is, or you ain’t.
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Cool Known Myself
The electric guitar was vital in helping what I’ve achieved where would I be without it? Playing awfully quietly, for a start.
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Electric Guitar Play Quiet Start
Everybody thinks you reach a certain age and you’re a grownup, but it’s not true. Nobody grows up until the day they croak.
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Growth Reach Thinking True Yourself

I mean, give me a guitar, give me a piano, give me a broom and string, I wouldn’t get bored anywhere.

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