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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

What is life but playing with time?
KEITH RICHARDS

Life Play Time
When you’re 20, you can’t imagine being 30. When you’re 30, you can’t imagine being 40. When you’re 40, you can’t imagine being 100.
KEITH RICHARDS

Age Growth Imagination Yourself
I don’t wave a flag for anything. I’m a musician.
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Flag Musician Myself Wave
George Jones is a national treasure and should be treated accordingly. A unique style so often emulated even inadvertently.
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National Treasure Unique
One minute I’m standing at Ronnie Scott’s getting a standing ovation and the next minute, I’m on a marble slab
KEITH RICHARDS

Appreciation Myself Stand
Love has sold more songs than you’ve had hot dinners.
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Food Love Song 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
If you are going to get wasted, then get wasted elegantly.
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Alcohol Wasted Yourself
I never plan anything, which is probably the difference between Mick and myself. Mick needs to know what he’s gonna do tomorrow and I’m just happy to wake up to see who’s hanging around. Mick’s rock and I’m roll.
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Difference Known Myself Planning
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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History Ideas Myself Retirement
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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Desperate Feeling Money People Record Touch Yourself
Everybody starts by imitating their heroes. For me it was Chuck Berry and Muddy Waters.
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Heroes Imitation Myself Start
I was number 1 on the who’s likely to die list for 10 years. I was really disappointed when I fell off that list.
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Death Disappointment Myself
Rock and Roll: Music for the neck downwards.
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Music Neck Rock Role
I read the Bible sometimes, but it bores me to death. I just want to know what other people find so bloody fascinating.
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Blood Fascination Myself People Reading
I’m an unpure purist, something like that.
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Myself Purity
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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Day Feeling Light Time
Whatever side I take, I know well that I will be blamed.
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Blame Known Myself Side
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
To make a rock’n’roll record, technology is the least important thing.
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Important Record Technology
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 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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Guitar Music Point Popular Yourself
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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Boredom Guitar Myself
Fame has killed more very talented guys than drugs. Jimi Hendrix didn’t die of an overdose, he died of fame.
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Death Fame Kill Talent
You’ve got the sun, you’ve got the moon, and you’ve got the Rolling Stones.
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Moon Stone Sun Yourself
Everyone talks about rock these days; the problem is they forget about the roll.
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Music Problem Roll Talk
I’m free of hypochondria– although I’ve got everything else.
KEITH RICHARDS

Freedom Myself Sick

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