Songwriting’s a weird game.
KEITH RICHARDSWhen 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 don’t wave a flag for anything. I’m a musician.
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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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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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The rock’s easy, but the roll is another thing.
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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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One of the great things about songwrighting; it’s not an intellectual experience.
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I looked upon myself, in a sort of romantic and silly way, as like a laboratory.
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It’s great to be here. It’s great to be anywhere.
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Some things get better with age. Like me.
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No broken hearts, no broken necks.
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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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I look for ambiguity when I’m writing because life is ambiguous.
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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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One minute I’m standing at Ronnie Scott’s getting a standing ovation and the next minute, I’m on a marble slab
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It’s a privilege just to wake up to a new day.
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