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Keith Richards

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’ve never had inner turmoil about all this. You find a lot of people these days who cannot stand to be alone. You could lock me up in solitary for weeks on end, and I’d keep myself amused.
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Alone End Myself People Stand
I mean some doctor told me I had six months to live and I went to their funeral.
KEITH RICHARDS

Death Funny Live Myself
The idea of retiring is like killing yourself. It’s almost like Hari Kari. I intend to live to a 100 and go down in history.
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History Ideas Myself Retirement
The electric guitar was vital in helping what I’ve achieved where would I be without it? Playing awfully quietly, for a start.
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Electric Guitar Play Quiet Start
You know, the BBC had not been particularly generous in its deliverance of blues and esoteric kinds of music.
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Blue Deliver Kind Known Music Yourself
I’m not getting old I’m evolving.
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Evolution Myself Old
You can’t accuse me of anything I haven’t already confessed to.
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Accuse Confession Yourself
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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Boredom Guitar Myself
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.
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Comfortable Feeling Myself Time
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
Music is a necessity. After food, air, water and warmth, music is the next necessity of life.
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Life Music Necessary Need
The rock’s easy, but the roll is another thing.
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Music Rock Roll
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
Some things get better with age. Like me.
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Age Better Instagram Captions
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.
KEITH RICHARDS

Death Disappointment Myself

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