The public library is the great equaliser.
KEITH RICHARDSMusic works in mysterious ways. Once it goes in you have no idea what it can do to you.
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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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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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I don’t regret nothing.
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The rock’s easy, but the roll is another thing.
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To me, life is a wild animal. You hope to deal with it when it leaps at you.
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Anything you throw yourself into, you better get yourself out of.
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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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I’m all for a quiet life. I just didn’t get one.
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Some things get better with age. Like me.
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You see, to me, the art of music is listening to it, not playing it. The real art of it is hearing it.
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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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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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Poison’s not bad. It’s a matter of how much.
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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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I occasionally borrow pot from my kids. They do a little weed occasionally. ‘Here, Dad’ – or more likely, ‘Dad, have you got any?’
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