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To me, the main thing about living on this planet is to know who the hell you are and be real about it. That’s the reason I’m still alive.

Keith Richards

If you say I’m great, thank you very much. But I know what I am. I could be better, man, you know?
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Better Greatness Man Myself
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
You know, the BBC had not been particularly generous in its deliverance of blues and esoteric kinds of music.
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Blue Deliver Kind Known Music Yourself
You don’t find a style. A style finds you.
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Finding Style Yourself
What’s the big deal about still working? Retirement age is sixty-five, and that’s at a normal job – and I ain’t there yet.
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Job Myself Normal Retirement Work
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
I’ve never had my hair cut by anybody, I do it all myself.
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Hairs Myself
Some things get better with age. Like me.
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Age Better Instagram Captions
I’m all for a quiet life. I just didn’t get one.
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Life Oneself Quiet
Rock and Roll: Music for the neck downwards.
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Music Neck Rock Role
To me, life is a wild animal. You hope to deal with it when it leaps at you.
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Animal Life Wild Yourself
I am not doing it just for the money or for you. I am doing it for me.
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Money Myself Yourself
If you are going to get wasted, then get wasted elegantly.
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Alcohol Wasted Yourself
Everybody starts by imitating their heroes. For me it was Chuck Berry and Muddy Waters.
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Heroes Imitation Myself Start
I don’t trust doctors. It’s not to say there ain’t some good ones, but on a general level, no, I wouldn’t trust ’em at all.
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Doctor Goodness Myself Trust
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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To me, the main thing about living on this planet is to know who the hell you are and be real about it. That’s the reason I’m still alive.

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To me, the main thing about living on this planet is to know who the hell you are and be real about it. That’s the reason I’m still alive.

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