I’ve never turned blue in someone else’s bathroom. I consider that the height of bad manners.
KEITH RICHARDSI 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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My father. I snorted my father. He was cremated and I couldn’t resist grinding him up with a little bit of blow.
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Everybody starts by imitating their heroes. For me it was Chuck Berry and Muddy Waters.
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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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Retire? I can’t spell the word. I’d play in a wheelchair.
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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.
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Love has sold more songs than you’ve had hot dinners.
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If you’ve gotta think about being cool, you ain’t cool.
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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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Anything you throw yourself into, you better get yourself out of.
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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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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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If you say I’m great, thank you very much. But I know what I am. I could be better, man, you know?
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I don’t wave a flag for anything. I’m a musician.
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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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You don’t find a style. A style finds you.
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