I don’t encourage anybody to do what I do, you know? Why should you? More for me!
KEITH RICHARDSGeorge Jones is a national treasure and should be treated accordingly. A unique style so often emulated even inadvertently.
More Keith Richards Quotes
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Nobody wants to get old, but nobody wants to die young either.
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Why would you want to be anything else if you’re Mick Jagger?
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If you’ve gotta think about being cool, you ain’t cool.
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I occasionally borrow pot from my kids. They do a little weed occasionally. ‘Here, Dad’ – or more likely, ‘Dad, have you got any?’
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My father. I snorted my father. He was cremated and I couldn’t resist grinding him up with a little bit of blow.
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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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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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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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I’ve never had my hair cut by anybody, I do it all myself.
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I look for ambiguity when I’m writing because life is ambiguous.
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You don’t find a style. A style finds you.
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Everybody’s got a different way of telling a story – and has different stories to tell.
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Songwriting’s a weird game.
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I’m not getting old I’m evolving.
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Yes, I’ve been trepanned. That’s quite an interesting experience, especially for my brain surgeon, who saw my thoughts flying around in my brain.
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