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I’m all for a quiet life. I just didn’t get one.

Keith Richards

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.
KEITH RICHARDS

Alone End Myself People Stand
I like it here in Austin. Anybody got a room?
KEITH RICHARDS

Country Myself Place Room
We all have our own personal laboratories. Life is an experiment, and it’s just a matter of getting the alchemical or chemical combination right.
KEITH RICHARDS

Combination Experiment Life Personal Right
If you are going to get wasted, then get wasted elegantly.
KEITH RICHARDS

Alcohol Wasted Yourself
If you don’t know the blues there’s no point in picking up the guitar and playing rock and roll or any other form of popular music.
KEITH RICHARDS

Guitar Music Point Popular Yourself
I never sleep alone. If there is no one to sleep next to, I’ll sleep next to a stuffed animal. It makes me feel secure and safe. It’s a little embarrassing to admit it; I’m an old man now. It’s important to me though.
KEITH RICHARDS

Alone Embarrassment Man Myself Old Secure Sleep
I was number 1 on the who’s likely to die list for 10 years. I was really disappointed when I fell off that list.
KEITH RICHARDS

Death Disappointment Myself
My father. I snorted my father. He was cremated and I couldn’t resist grinding him up with a little bit of blow.
KEITH RICHARDS

Blow Father Myself Resistance
I haven’t stopped smoking; anything.
KEITH RICHARDS

Myself Smoking Stop
The electric guitar was vital in helping what I’ve achieved where would I be without it? Playing awfully quietly, for a start.
KEITH RICHARDS

Electric Guitar Play Quiet Start
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.
KEITH RICHARDS

Blue Learning Monastery Realize Sing Thinking
Why would you want to be anything else if you’re Mick Jagger?
KEITH RICHARDS

Change Fame Identity Yourself
Everybody thinks you reach a certain age and you’re a grownup, but it’s not true. Nobody grows up until the day they croak.
KEITH RICHARDS

Growth Reach Thinking True Yourself
Preaching is tax free. Very little to do with God, a lot to do with money.
KEITH RICHARDS

God Money Preach Tax
I don’t wave a flag for anything. I’m a musician.
KEITH RICHARDS

Flag Musician Myself Wave
It’s great to be here. It’s great to be anywhere.
KEITH RICHARDS

Existence Gratitude Greatness

I’m all for a quiet life. I just didn’t get one.

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