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Everybody thinks you reach a certain age and you’re a grownup, but it’s not true. Nobody grows up until the day they croak.

Keith Richards

What’s the big deal about still working? Retirement age is sixty-five, and that’s at a normal job – and I ain’t there yet.
KEITH RICHARDS

Job Myself Normal Retirement Work
I’m free of hypochondria– although I’ve got everything else.
KEITH RICHARDS

Freedom Myself Sick
And then I think we realized, like any young guys, that blues are not learned in a monastery. You’ve got to go out there and get your heart broke and then come back and then you can sing the blues.
KEITH RICHARDS

Blue Learning Monastery Realize Sing Thinking
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?
KEITH RICHARDS

Desperate Feeling Money People Record Touch Yourself
I don’t encourage anybody to do what I do, you know? Why should you? More for me!
KEITH RICHARDS

Body Encouragement Known Myself
Music works in mysterious ways. Once it goes in you have no idea what it can do to you.
KEITH RICHARDS

Ideas Music Mysterious Work Yourself
One minute I’m standing at Ronnie Scott’s getting a standing ovation and the next minute, I’m on a marble slab
KEITH RICHARDS

Appreciation Myself Stand
Anything you throw yourself into, you better get yourself out of.
KEITH RICHARDS

Better Throw Yourself
It’s an addiction and addiction is something I should know something about.
KEITH RICHARDS

Addiction Known Myself
I’m an unpure purist, something like that.
KEITH RICHARDS

Myself Purity
But I’ve always felt very comfortable on stage, even if I screw up. It always felt like a dog, this is my turf, piss around it. While I’m here, nothing else can happen. All I can do is screw up. Otherwise, have a good time.
KEITH RICHARDS

Comfortable Feeling Myself Time
You’ve got the sun, you’ve got the moon, and you’ve got the Rolling Stones.
KEITH RICHARDS

Moon Stone Sun Yourself
Rock and Roll: Music for the neck downwards.
KEITH RICHARDS

Music Neck Rock Role
You know, the BBC had not been particularly generous in its deliverance of blues and esoteric kinds of music.
KEITH RICHARDS

Blue Deliver Kind Known Music Yourself
I consider my job [being a musician] is to have a little idea and nurture it and put it in some form that everybody else can understand and then sort of pass it on. It’s really a passing through. In other words, you receive and you transmit.
KEITH RICHARDS

Ideas Job Myself Nurture Understand Word
If you’ve gotta think about being cool, you ain’t cool.
KEITH RICHARDS

Cool Thinking Yourself

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