A painter’s got a canvas. The writer’s got reams of empty paper. A musician has silence.
KEITH RICHARDSI 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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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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I look for ambiguity when I’m writing because life is ambiguous.
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Retire? I can’t spell the word. I’d play in a wheelchair.
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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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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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I’m free of hypochondria– although I’ve got everything else.
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I’m all for a quiet life. I just didn’t get one.
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Rock and roll ain’t nothing but jazz with a hard backbeat.
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Rock and Roll: Music for the neck downwards.
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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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No broken hearts, no broken necks.
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Let me be clear about this. I don’t have a drug problem. I have a police problem.
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[John] Belushi was an extreme experience even by my standards.
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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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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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