The idea of retiring is like killing yourself. It’s almost like Hari Kari. I intend to live to a 100 and go down in history.
KEITH RICHARDS
Retire? I can’t spell the word. I’d play in a wheelchair.
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The idea of retiring is like killing yourself. It’s almost like Hari Kari. I intend to live to a 100 and go down in history.
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But I’ve always felt very comfortable on stage, even if I screw up. It always felt like a dog, this is my turf, piss around it. While I’m here, nothing else can happen. All I can do is screw up. Otherwise, have a good time.
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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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Guitar is easy, all it takes is 5 fingers, 6 strings and 1 a**hole.
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Music is a language that doesn’t speak in particular words. It speaks in emotions, and if it’s in the bones, it’s in the bones.
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True friends. Hardest thing to find, but you never look for them – they found you ; you just grow into each other
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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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If you stay up, you get the songs that everyone else misses because they’re asleep.
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Everybody starts by imitating their heroes. For me it was Chuck Berry and Muddy Waters.
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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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I haven’t stopped smoking; anything.
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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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The rock’s easy, but the roll is another thing.
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I’ve never had inner turmoil about all this. You find a lot of people these days who cannot stand to be alone. You could lock me up in solitary for weeks on end, and I’d keep myself amused.
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You don’t find a style. A style finds you.
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