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Everyone talks about rock these days; the problem is they forget about the roll.

Keith Richards

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.
KEITH RICHARDS

Blue Learning Monastery Realize Sing Thinking
[John] Belushi was an extreme experience even by my standards.
KEITH RICHARDS

Experience Myself Standard
The only things Mick and I disagree about is the band, the music and what we do.
KEITH RICHARDS

Disagreement Music Myself
Yes, I’ve been trepanned. That’s quite an interesting experience, especially for my brain surgeon, who saw my thoughts flying around in my brain.
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Brain Experience Interesting Myself Quite Thinking
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.
KEITH RICHARDS

Growth Reach Thinking True Yourself
There’s a demon in me, and he’s still around. Without the dope, we have a bit more of a chat these days.
KEITH RICHARDS

Day Demon Himself Myself
What Muddy Waters did for us is what we should do for others. It’s the old thing, what you want written on your tombstone as a musician: ‘He passed it on.’
KEITH RICHARDS

Himself Musician Old Water Writing
I looked upon myself, in a sort of romantic and silly way, as like a laboratory.
KEITH RICHARDS

Labor Myself Romantic Way
One of the great things about songwrighting; it’s not an intellectual experience.
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Experience Greatness Intellectual Oneself
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.
KEITH RICHARDS

Job Myself Normal Retirement Work
The rock’s easy, but the roll is another thing.
KEITH RICHARDS

Music Rock Roll
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.
KEITH RICHARDS

Alive Known Live Planet Reason
If you are going to get wasted, then get wasted elegantly.
KEITH RICHARDS

Alcohol Wasted Yourself
If you’ve gotta think about being cool, you ain’t cool.
KEITH RICHARDS

Cool Thinking Yourself
I have no idea what the audience makes of me.
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Audience Ideas Myself
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.
KEITH RICHARDS

Doctor Goodness Myself Trust

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