[John] Belushi was an extreme experience even by my standards.
KEITH RICHARDSWhat’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.
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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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I’ve never had my hair cut by anybody, I do it all myself.
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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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You know, the BBC had not been particularly generous in its deliverance of blues and esoteric kinds of music.
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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.
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I don’t regret nothing.
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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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Everyone talks about rock these days; the problem is they forget about the roll.
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The only things Mick and I disagree about is the band, the music and what we do.
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If you are going to get wasted, then get wasted elegantly.
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I mean some doctor told me I had six months to live and I went to their funeral.
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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.
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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.
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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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Anything you throw yourself into, you better get yourself out of.
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