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.
KEITH RICHARDSYou have the sun, you have the moon, you have the air that you breathe – and you have the Rolling Stones!
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Everybody starts by imitating their heroes. For me it was Chuck Berry and Muddy Waters.
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You’ve got the sun, you’ve got the moon, and you’ve got the Rolling Stones.
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It’s a privilege just to wake up to a new day.
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I never thought I was wasted, but I probably was.
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If you’re cool, you don’t know nothing about it. It just is, or you ain’t.
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To me, life is a wild animal. You hope to deal with it when it leaps at you.
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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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Music works in mysterious ways. Once it goes in you have no idea what it can do to you.
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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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George Jones is a national treasure and should be treated accordingly. A unique style so often emulated even inadvertently.
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When I listen to what I did under the influence – 10 years of work – I don’t think it either enhanced or impaired me. It didn’t have that much to do with it.
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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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I’ve got nothing against daylight. I don’t live totally nocturnally. Only when I feel like it. Which is most of the time.
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Rock and roll ain’t nothing but jazz with a hard backbeat.
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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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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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Whatever side I take, I know well that I will be blamed.
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I looked upon myself, in a sort of romantic and silly way, as like a laboratory.
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What is life but playing with time?
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But I’m not here just to make records and money. I’m here to say something and to touch other people, sometimes in a cry of desperation: “Do you know this feeling?
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Why would you want to be anything else if you’re Mick Jagger?
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If you stay up, you get the songs that everyone else misses because they’re asleep.
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Nobody wants to get old, but nobody wants to die young either.
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Guitar is easy, all it takes is 5 fingers, 6 strings and 1 a**hole.
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You don’t find a style. A style finds you.
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