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.
KEITH RICHARDSI personally believe that most people that play an instrument would be able to write a few songs here and there. But they say, “I tried, I can’t do it” and give up and don’t try it again; they get too discouraged.
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I only get ill when I give up drugs. I don’t have a drug problem, I have a police problem.
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I personally believe that most people that play an instrument would be able to write a few songs here and there. But they say, “I tried, I can’t do it” and give up and don’t try it again; they get too discouraged.
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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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When you are growing up there are two institutional places that affect you most powerfully: the church, which belongs to God, and the public library, which belongs to you.
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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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It’s a privilege just to wake up to a new day.
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Music is a language that doesn’t speak in particular words. It speaks in emotions, and if it’s in the bones, it’s in the bones.
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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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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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I don’t encourage anybody to do what I do, you know? Why should you? More for me!
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I’m all for a quiet life. I just didn’t get one.
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Whatever side I take, I know well that I will be blamed.
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[John] Belushi was an extreme experience even by my standards.
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Nobody wants to get old, but nobody wants to die young either.
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I never plan anything, which is probably the difference between Mick and myself. Mick needs to know what he’s gonna do tomorrow and I’m just happy to wake up to see who’s hanging around. Mick’s rock and I’m roll.
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Women are a beautiful complication, and I look forward to far more beauties and far more complications.
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If you say I’m great, thank you very much. But I know what I am. I could be better, man, you know?
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It might appear that nothing is happening, but that’s actually when it really happens.
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Songwriting’s a weird game.
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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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Everyone talks about rock these days; the problem is they forget about the roll.
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To me, the main thing about living on this planet is to know who the hell you are and be real about it. That’s the reason I’m still alive.
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I’m free of hypochondria– although I’ve got everything else.
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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.
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I’m not getting old I’m evolving.
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There’s a demon in me, and he’s still around. Without the dope, we have a bit more of a chat these days.
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