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If you are going to get wasted, then get wasted elegantly.

Keith Richards

Everybody starts by imitating their heroes. For me it was Chuck Berry and Muddy Waters.
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Heroes Imitation Myself Start
One of the great things about songwrighting; it’s not an intellectual experience.
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Experience Greatness Intellectual Oneself
It might appear that nothing is happening, but that’s actually when it really happens.
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Calm Nature Silence Yourself
I mean some doctor told me I had six months to live and I went to their funeral.
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Death Funny Live Myself
I like it here in Austin. Anybody got a room?
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Country Myself Place Room
True friends. Hardest thing to find, but you never look for them – they found you ; you just grow into each other
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Each Other Finding Friendship True
I was number 1 on the who’s likely to die list for 10 years. I was really disappointed when I fell off that list.
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Death Disappointment Myself
I only get ill when I give up drugs. I don’t have a drug problem, I have a police problem.
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Drugs Give Up Myself Police Problem
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
My life is full of broken halos.
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Break Heart Broken Instagram Captions Life Myself One Liner
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’m free of hypochondria– although I’ve got everything else.
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Freedom Myself Sick
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
Fame has killed more very talented guys than drugs. Jimi Hendrix didn’t die of an overdose, he died of fame.
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Death Fame Kill Talent
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
We age not by holding on to youth, but by letting ourselves grow and embracing whatever youthful parts remain.
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Age Growth Ourselves Youth
There’s a demon in me, and he’s still around. Without the dope, we have a bit more of a chat these days.
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Day Demon Himself 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
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
You get onstage and make other people feel happy. Make them feel good.
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Feeling Happiness People Yourself
Anything you throw yourself into, you better get yourself out of.
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Better Throw Yourself
A painter’s got a canvas. The writer’s got reams of empty paper. A musician has silence.
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Canvas Musician Painter Paper Silence
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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Boredom Guitar Myself
Music works in mysterious ways. Once it goes in you have no idea what it can do to you.
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Ideas Music Mysterious Work Yourself
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
Retire? I can’t spell the word. I’d play in a wheelchair.
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Myself Play Retirement Spell Word
I looked upon myself, in a sort of romantic and silly way, as like a laboratory.
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Labor Myself Romantic Way

If you are going to get wasted, then get wasted elegantly.

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