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One minute I’m standing at Ronnie Scott’s getting a standing ovation and the next minute, I’m on a marble slab

Keith Richards

I look for ambiguity when I’m writing because life is ambiguous.
KEITH RICHARDS

Life Myself Writing
Everybody starts by imitating their heroes. For me it was Chuck Berry and Muddy Waters.
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Heroes Imitation Myself Start
I only get ill when I give up drugs. I don’t have a drug problem, I have a police problem.
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Drugs Give Up Myself Police Problem
You have the sun, you have the moon, you have the air that you breathe – and you have the Rolling Stones!
KEITH RICHARDS

Breathe Moon Sun Yourself
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
It’s great to be here. It’s great to be anywhere.
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Existence Gratitude Greatness
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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Comfortable Feeling Myself Time
I’ve never had inner turmoil about all this. You find a lot of people these days who cannot stand to be alone. You could lock me up in solitary for weeks on end, and I’d keep myself amused.
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Alone End Myself People Stand
If you’ve gotta think about being cool, you ain’t cool.
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Cool Thinking Yourself
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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Difference Known Myself Planning
I mean some doctor told me I had six months to live and I went to their funeral.
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Death Funny Live Myself
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
What Muddy Waters did for us is what we should do for others. It’s the old thing, what you want written on your tombstone as a musician: ‘He passed it on.’
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Himself Musician Old Water Writing
A painter’s got a canvas. The writer’s got reams of empty paper. A musician has silence.
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Canvas Musician Painter Paper Silence
I’ve never had a problem with drugs. I’ve had problems with the police.
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Drugs Myself Police Problem
I achieved everything I wanted to achieve by being in the Rolling Stones and making records.
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Achievement Myself Record

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