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 RICHARDSIt might appear that nothing is happening, but that’s actually when it really happens.
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Everyone talks about rock these days; the problem is they forget about the roll.
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To make a rock’n’roll record, technology is the least important thing.
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If you’re cool, you don’t know nothing about it. It just is, or you ain’t.
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Guitar is easy, all it takes is 5 fingers, 6 strings and 1 a**hole.
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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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I’ve never turned blue in someone else’s bathroom. I consider that the height of bad manners.
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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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If you are going to get wasted, then get wasted elegantly.
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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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My life is full of broken halos.
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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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Women are a beautiful complication, and I look forward to far more beauties and far more complications.
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Why would you want to be anything else if you’re Mick Jagger?
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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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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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