Everybody starts by imitating their heroes. For me it was Chuck Berry and Muddy Waters.
KEITH RICHARDSIt’s one thing to play a Muddy Waters song. It’s another thing to play with him.
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I’ve never turned blue in someone else’s bathroom. I consider that the height of bad manners.
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Some things get better with age. Like me.
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I don’t trust doctors. It’s not to say there ain’t some good ones, but on a general level, no, I wouldn’t trust ’em at all.
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I achieved everything I wanted to achieve by being in the Rolling Stones and making records.
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The public library is the great equaliser.
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Anything you throw yourself into, you better get yourself out of.
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I’ve never had my hair cut by anybody, I do it all myself.
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I don’t regret nothing.
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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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What Muddy Waters did for us is what we should do for others. It’s the old thing, what you want written on your tombstone as a musician: ‘He passed it on.’
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Fame has killed more very talented guys than drugs. Jimi Hendrix didn’t die of an overdose, he died of fame.
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Music works in mysterious ways. Once it goes in you have no idea what it can do to you.
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Retire? I can’t spell the word. I’d play in a wheelchair.
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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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Nobody wants to get old, but nobody wants to die young either.
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