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I’m free of hypochondria– although I’ve got everything else.

Keith Richards

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
Poison’s not bad. It’s a matter of how much.
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Bad Poison Quantity
The rock’s easy, but the roll is another thing.
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Music Rock Roll
To a musician or songwriter, your canvas is silence.
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Canvas Musician Silence Yourself
Let me be clear about this. I don’t have a drug problem. I have a police problem.
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Drugs Police Problem
I’m not getting old I’m evolving.
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Evolution Myself Old
You know, the BBC had not been particularly generous in its deliverance of blues and esoteric kinds of music.
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Blue Deliver Kind Known Music Yourself
Everybody starts by imitating their heroes. For me it was Chuck Berry and Muddy Waters.
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Heroes Imitation Myself Start
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
The only things Mick and I disagree about is the band, the music and what we do.
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Disagreement Music Myself
I achieved everything I wanted to achieve by being in the Rolling Stones and making records.
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Achievement Myself Record
One of the great things about songwrighting; it’s not an intellectual experience.
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Experience Greatness Intellectual Oneself
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
Why would you want to be anything else if you’re Mick Jagger?
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Change Fame Identity Yourself
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
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
To make a rock’n’roll record, technology is the least important thing.
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Important Record Technology
I’ve never had a problem with drugs. I’ve had problems with the police.
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Drugs Myself Police Problem
I looked upon myself, in a sort of romantic and silly way, as like a laboratory.
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Labor Myself Romantic Way
I never thought I was wasted, but I probably was.
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Alcohol Myself Wasted Time
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 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
Guitar is easy, all it takes is 5 fingers, 6 strings and 1 a**hole.
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Guitar Instrument Musician
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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Blue Learning Monastery Realize Sing Thinking
You see, to me, the art of music is listening to it, not playing it. The real art of it is hearing it.
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Art Hear Musician Myself See
No broken hearts, no broken necks.
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Break Heart Broken Neck
The Stones in a club is still the ultimate rush.
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Rush Stone Ultimate

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