George Jones is a national treasure and should be treated accordingly. A unique style so often emulated even inadvertently.
KEITH RICHARDSSome things get better with age. Like me.
More Keith Richards Quotes
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If you are going to get wasted, then get wasted elegantly.
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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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It’s a privilege just to wake up to a new day.
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The public library is the great equaliser.
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I personally believe that most people that play an instrument would be able to write a few songs here and there. But they say, “I tried, I can’t do it” and give up and don’t try it again; they get too discouraged.
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I’ve got nothing against daylight. I don’t live totally nocturnally. Only when I feel like it. Which is most of the time.
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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.
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No broken hearts, no broken necks.
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But I’m not here just to make records and money. I’m here to say something and to touch other people, sometimes in a cry of desperation: “Do you know this feeling?
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I’m an unpure purist, something like that.
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The Stones in a club is still the ultimate rush.
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I am not doing it just for the money or for you. I am doing it for me.
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Retire? I can’t spell the word. I’d play in a wheelchair.
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To make a rock’n’roll record, technology is the least important thing.
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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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