Rock and roll ain’t nothing but jazz with a hard backbeat.
KEITH RICHARDSMusic is a language that doesn’t speak in particular words. It speaks in emotions, and if it’s in the bones, it’s in the bones.
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Anything you throw yourself into, you better get yourself out of.
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Poison’s not bad. It’s a matter of how much.
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It’s an addiction and addiction is something I should know something about.
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It’s one thing to play a Muddy Waters song. It’s another thing to play with him.
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If you’re cool, you don’t know nothing about it. It just is, or you ain’t.
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Love has sold more songs than you’ve had hot dinners.
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You’ve got the sun, you’ve got the moon, and you’ve got the Rolling Stones.
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I don’t encourage anybody to do what I do, you know? Why should you? More for me!
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One minute I’m standing at Ronnie Scott’s getting a standing ovation and the next minute, I’m on a marble slab
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It’s great to be here. It’s great to be anywhere.
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I mean some doctor told me I had six months to live and I went to their funeral.
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You know, the BBC had not been particularly generous in its deliverance of blues and esoteric kinds of music.
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No broken hearts, no broken necks.
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What is life but playing with time?
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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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