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I never thought I was wasted, but I probably was.

Keith Richards

When you are growing up there are two institutional places that affect you most powerfully: the church, which belongs to God, and the public library, which belongs to you.
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Affect Belong Growth Library Place Yourself
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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Each Other Finding Friendship True
Rock and roll ain’t nothing but jazz with a hard backbeat.
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Hard Music Rock Roll
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
My life is full of broken halos.
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Break Heart Broken Instagram Captions Life Myself One Liner
If you’ve gotta think about being cool, you ain’t cool.
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Cool Thinking Yourself
This is the rock ‘n’ roll life, and you had to invent it as you went along. There was no textbook to say how you operate this machinery.
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Invention Life Machine Operation Rock
I am not doing it just for the money or for you. I am doing it for me.
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Money Myself Yourself
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
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
I’m free of hypochondria– although I’ve got everything else.
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Freedom Myself Sick
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.
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Doctor Goodness Myself Trust
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
Retire? I can’t spell the word. I’d play in a wheelchair.
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Myself Play Retirement Spell Word
There’s a demon in me, and he’s still around. Without the dope, we have a bit more of a chat these days.
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Day Demon Himself Myself
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
Everyone talks about rock these days; the problem is they forget about the roll.
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Music Problem Roll Talk
I never thought I was wasted, but I probably was.
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Alcohol Myself Wasted Time
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
Some people think I’m a mythical genius, others think I’m a junkie madman.
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Genius Myself People Thinking
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
I don’t regret nothing.
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Myself One Liner Regret
One minute I’m standing at Ronnie Scott’s getting a standing ovation and the next minute, I’m on a marble slab
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Appreciation Myself Stand
Women are a beautiful complication, and I look forward to far more beauties and far more complications.
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Beautiful Complication Myself Woman
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
It’s one thing to play a Muddy Waters song. It’s another thing to play with him.
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Himself Play
I’m not getting old I’m evolving.
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Evolution Myself Old

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