If you’re cool, you don’t know nothing about it. It just is, or you ain’t.
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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I read the Bible sometimes, but it bores me to death. I just want to know what other people find so bloody fascinating.
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It’s a privilege just to wake up to a new day.
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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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You can’t accuse me of anything I haven’t already confessed to.
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One of the great things about songwrighting; it’s not an intellectual experience.
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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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I haven’t stopped smoking; anything.
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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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Everybody starts by imitating their heroes. For me it was Chuck Berry and Muddy Waters.
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To a musician or songwriter, your canvas is silence.
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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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Everybody’s got a different way of telling a story – and has different stories to tell.
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The rock’s easy, but the roll is another thing.
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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’m an unpure purist, something like that.
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