The rock’s easy, but the roll is another thing.
KEITH RICHARDSTo me, my biggest fear is getting a big head, and that is when I get the hammer. Because it’s very easy in this game to believe you’re something special.
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I never thought I was wasted, but I probably was.
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To a musician or songwriter, your canvas is silence.
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It might appear that nothing is happening, but that’s actually when it really happens.
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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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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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To me, my biggest fear is getting a big head, and that is when I get the hammer. Because it’s very easy in this game to believe you’re something special.
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If you are going to get wasted, then get wasted elegantly.
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To make a rock’n’roll record, technology is the least important thing.
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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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Why would you want to be anything else if you’re Mick Jagger?
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I don’t wave a flag for anything. I’m a musician.
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If you stay up, you get the songs that everyone else misses because they’re asleep.
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I’m an unpure purist, something like that.
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I looked upon myself, in a sort of romantic and silly way, as like a laboratory.
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Retire? I can’t spell the word. I’d play in a wheelchair.
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