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I'm not ready to retire, and I think I have some of the best music of my life coming up.

Retire? Not on your life. I have no plans to stop singing. What are you going to do when you love music? It's a terrible disease. You can't stop. Of course, I'd like to get off the road.

As a musician, life is not over just because you are getting older, and so I find retirement a very frightening and dark thought.

Musicians don't retire; they stop when there's no more music in them.

Professionally, I want to keep playing music; I can't escape that.

I play music because I love it and I'll keep playin' till I'm old.

I still love playing music. It was all I ever wanted to do, and I got the chance to do it.

I still enjoy doing music. I'm not going to stop doing it, and doing it the way that I feel it should be done.

Back home, playing music is never anything you imagine you can do for a living. It's what you do after work.

I may quit the music business someday, but never the music.