One minute I’m standing at Ronnie Scott’s getting a standing ovation and the next minute, I’m on a marble slab
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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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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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.
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I never sleep alone. If there is no one to sleep next to, I’ll sleep next to a stuffed animal. It makes me feel secure and safe. It’s a little embarrassing to admit it; I’m an old man now. It’s important to me though.
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I never thought I was wasted, but I probably was.
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A painter’s got a canvas. The writer’s got reams of empty paper. A musician has silence.
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If you don’t know the blues there’s no point in picking up the guitar and playing rock and roll or any other form of popular music.
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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.
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Anything you throw yourself into, you better get yourself out of.
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It’s a privilege just to wake up to a new day.
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My life is full of broken halos.
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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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You don’t find a style. A style finds you.
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If you are going to get wasted, then get wasted elegantly.
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We all have our own personal laboratories. Life is an experiment, and it’s just a matter of getting the alchemical or chemical combination right.
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I like it here in Austin. Anybody got a room?
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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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To make a rock’n’roll record, technology is the least important thing.
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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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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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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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I’ve never had a problem with drugs. I’ve had problems with the police.
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The rock’s easy, but the roll is another thing.
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It’s an addiction and addiction is something I should know something about.
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I am not doing it just for the money or for you. I am doing it for me.
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To a musician or songwriter, your canvas is silence.
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Music is a necessity. After food, air, water and warmth, music is the next necessity of life.
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