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To me, life is a wild animal. You hope to deal with it when it leaps at you.

Keith Richards

Music is a necessity. After food, air, water and warmth, music is the next necessity of life.
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Life Music Necessary Need
I mean some doctor told me I had six months to live and I went to their funeral.
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Death Funny Live Myself
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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Bone Emotion Language Music Talk Word
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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Big Fear Game Special Yourself
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.
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Job Myself Normal Retirement Work
If you’ve gotta think about being cool, you ain’t cool.
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Cool Thinking Yourself
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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Blue Learning Monastery Realize Sing Thinking
It’s great to be here. It’s great to be anywhere.
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Existence Gratitude Greatness
Rock and roll ain’t nothing but jazz with a hard backbeat.
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Hard Music Rock Roll
You have the sun, you have the moon, you have the air that you breathe – and you have the Rolling Stones!
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Breathe Moon Sun Yourself
It might appear that nothing is happening, but that’s actually when it really happens.
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Calm Nature Silence Yourself
The electric guitar was vital in helping what I’ve achieved where would I be without it? Playing awfully quietly, for a start.
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Electric Guitar Play Quiet Start
The Stones in a club is still the ultimate rush.
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Rush Stone Ultimate
If you are going to get wasted, then get wasted elegantly.
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Alcohol Wasted Yourself
I have no idea what the audience makes of me.
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Audience Ideas Myself
I consider my job [being a musician] is to have a little idea and nurture it and put it in some form that everybody else can understand and then sort of pass it on. It’s really a passing through. In other words, you receive and you transmit.
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Ideas Job Myself Nurture Understand Word

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