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When you’re 20, you can’t imagine being 30. When you’re 30, you can’t imagine being 40. When you’re 40, you can’t imagine being 100.

Keith Richards

One of the great things about songwrighting; it’s not an intellectual experience.
KEITH RICHARDS

Experience Greatness Intellectual Oneself
If you’re going to kick authority in the teeth, you might as well use both feet.
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Authority Yourself
I achieved everything I wanted to achieve by being in the Rolling Stones and making records.
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Achievement Myself Record
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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Blood Fascination Myself People Reading
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
The only things Mick and I disagree about is the band, the music and what we do.
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Disagreement Music Myself
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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Himself Musician Old Water Writing
It’s a privilege just to wake up to a new day.
KEITH RICHARDS

Day Gratitude Wake Up
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
I look for ambiguity when I’m writing because life is ambiguous.
KEITH RICHARDS

Life Myself Writing
Why would you want to be anything else if you’re Mick Jagger?
KEITH RICHARDS

Change Fame Identity Yourself
If you stay up, you get the songs that everyone else misses because they’re asleep.
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Missing Sleep Song Stay Yourself
You’ve got the sun, you’ve got the moon, and you’ve got the Rolling Stones.
KEITH RICHARDS

Moon Stone Sun Yourself
You have the sun, you have the moon, you have the air that you breathe – and you have the Rolling Stones!
KEITH RICHARDS

Breathe Moon Sun Yourself
My father. I snorted my father. He was cremated and I couldn’t resist grinding him up with a little bit of blow.
KEITH RICHARDS

Blow Father Myself Resistance
We age not by holding on to youth, but by letting ourselves grow and embracing whatever youthful parts remain.
KEITH RICHARDS

Age Growth Ourselves Youth

When you’re 20, you can’t imagine being 30. When you’re 30, you can’t imagine being 40. When you’re 40, you can’t imagine being 100.

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