One minute I’m standing at Ronnie Scott’s getting a standing ovation and the next minute, I’m on a marble slab
KEITH RICHARDSTo 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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When I listen to what I did under the influence – 10 years of work – I don’t think it either enhanced or impaired me. It didn’t have that much to do with it.
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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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Why would you want to be anything else if you’re Mick Jagger?
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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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You can’t accuse me of anything I haven’t already confessed to.
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It’s one thing to play a Muddy Waters song. It’s another thing to play with him.
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But I’m not here just to make records and money. I’m here to say something and to touch other people, sometimes in a cry of desperation: “Do you know this feeling?
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Poison’s not bad. It’s a matter of how much.
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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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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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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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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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The Stones in a club is still the ultimate rush.
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We age not by holding on to youth, but by letting ourselves grow and embracing whatever youthful parts remain.
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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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