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George Jones is a national treasure and should be treated accordingly. A unique style so often emulated even inadvertently.

Keith Richards

To me, life is a wild animal. You hope to deal with it when it leaps at you.
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Animal Life Wild Yourself
I was number 1 on the who’s likely to die list for 10 years. I was really disappointed when I fell off that list.
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Death Disappointment Myself
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
Rock and Roll: Music for the neck downwards.
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Music Neck Rock Role
I’m all for a quiet life. I just didn’t get one.
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Life Oneself Quiet
Songwriting’s a weird game.
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Game One Liner Weird
I never sleep alone. If there is no one to sleep next to, I’ll sleep next to a stuffed animal. It makes me feel secure and safe. It’s a little embarrassing to admit it; I’m an old man now. It’s important to me though.
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Alone Embarrassment Man Myself Old Secure Sleep
Everybody’s got a different way of telling a story – and has different stories to tell.
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Different Story Talk Way
This is the rock ‘n’ roll life, and you had to invent it as you went along. There was no textbook to say how you operate this machinery.
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Invention Life Machine Operation Rock
We all have our own personal laboratories. Life is an experiment, and it’s just a matter of getting the alchemical or chemical combination right.
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Combination Experiment Life Personal Right
I mean some doctor told me I had six months to live and I went to their funeral.
KEITH RICHARDS

Death Funny Live Myself
Guitar is easy, all it takes is 5 fingers, 6 strings and 1 a**hole.
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Guitar Instrument Musician
If you’ve gotta think about being cool, you ain’t cool.
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Cool Thinking Yourself
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
Poison’s not bad. It’s a matter of how much.
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Bad Poison Quantity
If you are going to get wasted, then get wasted elegantly.
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Alcohol Wasted Yourself
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
True friends. Hardest thing to find, but you never look for them – they found you ; you just grow into each other
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Each Other Finding Friendship True
It’s one thing to play a Muddy Waters song. It’s another thing to play with him.
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Himself Play
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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Brain Experience Interesting Myself Quite Thinking
Some people think I’m a mythical genius, others think I’m a junkie madman.
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Genius Myself People Thinking
You have the sun, you have the moon, you have the air that you breathe – and you have the Rolling Stones!
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Breathe Moon Sun Yourself
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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Beautiful Listening Reading Song Touch
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
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
Why would you want to be anything else if you’re Mick Jagger?
KEITH RICHARDS

Change Fame Identity Yourself
Women are a beautiful complication, and I look forward to far more beauties and far more complications.
KEITH RICHARDS

Beautiful Complication Myself Woman

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