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What’s the big deal about still working? Retirement age is sixty-five, and that’s at a normal job – and I ain’t there yet.

Keith Richards

I like it here in Austin. Anybody got a room?
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Country Myself Place Room
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 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
I never plan anything, which is probably the difference between Mick and myself. Mick needs to know what he’s gonna do tomorrow and I’m just happy to wake up to see who’s hanging around. Mick’s rock and I’m roll.
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Difference Known Myself Planning
Everybody starts by imitating their heroes. For me it was Chuck Berry and Muddy Waters.
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Heroes Imitation Myself Start
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
If you’re going to kick authority in the teeth, you might as well use both feet.
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Authority Yourself
I’m an unpure purist, something like that.
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Myself Purity
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
The only things Mick and I disagree about is the band, the music and what we do.
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Disagreement Music Myself
It’s a privilege just to wake up to a new day.
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Day Gratitude Wake Up
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
My life is full of broken halos.
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Break Heart Broken Instagram Captions Life Myself One Liner
To me, my biggest fear is getting a big head, and that is when I get the hammer. Because it’s very easy in this game to believe you’re something special.
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Big Fear Game Special Yourself
The rock’s easy, but the roll is another thing.
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Music Rock Roll
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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Age Growth Imagination Yourself
To me, the main thing about living on this planet is to know who the hell you are and be real about it. That’s the reason I’m still alive.
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Alive Known Live Planet Reason
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
No broken hearts, no broken necks.
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Break Heart Broken Neck
One of the great things about songwrighting; it’s not an intellectual experience.
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Experience Greatness Intellectual Oneself
But I’ve always felt very comfortable on stage, even if I screw up. It always felt like a dog, this is my turf, piss around it. While I’m here, nothing else can happen. All I can do is screw up. Otherwise, have a good time.
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Comfortable Feeling Myself Time
I’ve never had my hair cut by anybody, I do it all myself.
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Hairs Myself
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
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
I am not doing it just for the money or for you. I am doing it for me.
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Money Myself Yourself
[John] Belushi was an extreme experience even by my standards.
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Experience Myself Standard

What’s the big deal about still working? Retirement age is sixty-five, and that’s at a normal job – and I ain’t there yet.

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