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Poison’s not bad. It’s a matter of how much.

Keith Richards

When you’re 20, you can’t imagine being 30. When you’re 30, you can’t imagine being 40. When you’re 40, you can’t imagine being 100.
KEITH RICHARDS

Age Growth Imagination 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
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
Women are a beautiful complication, and I look forward to far more beauties and far more complications.
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Beautiful Complication Myself Woman
Rock and Roll: Music for the neck downwards.
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Music Neck Rock Role
When I listen to what I did under the influence – 10 years of work – I don’t think it either enhanced or impaired me. It didn’t have that much to do with it.
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Influence Listening Myself Thinking Work
I read the Bible sometimes, but it bores me to death. I just want to know what other people find so bloody fascinating.
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Blood Fascination Myself People Reading
I don’t wave a flag for anything. I’m a musician.
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Flag Musician Myself Wave
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
I look for ambiguity when I’m writing because life is ambiguous.
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Life Myself Writing
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
We all have our own personal laboratories. Life is an experiment, and it’s just a matter of getting the alchemical or chemical combination right.
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Combination Experiment Life Personal Right
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
If you are going to get wasted, then get wasted elegantly.
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Alcohol Wasted Yourself
It might appear that nothing is happening, but that’s actually when it really happens.
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Calm Nature Silence Yourself
Some people think I’m a mythical genius, others think I’m a junkie madman.
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Genius Myself People Thinking

Poison’s not bad. It’s a matter of how much.

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