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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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To make a rock’n’roll record, technology is the least important thing.
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Important Record Technology
I don’t encourage anybody to do what I do, you know? Why should you? More for me!
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Body Encouragement Known Myself
If you stay up, you get the songs that everyone else misses because they’re asleep.
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Missing Sleep Song Stay Yourself
I occasionally borrow pot from my kids. They do a little weed occasionally. ‘Here, Dad’ – or more likely, ‘Dad, have you got any?’
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Children Father Occasion Yourself
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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One of the great things about songwrighting; it’s not an intellectual experience.
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Experience Greatness Intellectual Oneself
Preaching is tax free. Very little to do with God, a lot to do with money.
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God Money Preach Tax
I’m an unpure purist, something like that.
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Myself Purity
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
I’ve never turned blue in someone else’s bathroom. I consider that the height of bad manners.
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Bad Blue Manners Myself Privacy
To me, my biggest fear is getting a big head, and that is when I get the hammer. Because it’s very easy in this game to believe you’re something special.
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Big Fear Game Special Yourself
The rock’s easy, but the roll is another thing.
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Music Rock Roll
What Muddy Waters did for us is what we should do for others. It’s the old thing, what you want written on your tombstone as a musician: ‘He passed it on.’
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Himself Musician Old Water Writing
Poison’s not bad. It’s a matter of how much.
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Bad Poison Quantity
I look for ambiguity when I’m writing because life is ambiguous.
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Life Myself Writing
My life is full of broken halos.
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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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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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