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 RICHARDSIf you’re going to kick authority in the teeth, you might as well use both feet.
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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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Anything you throw yourself into, you better get yourself out of.
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Music is a necessity. After food, air, water and warmth, music is the next necessity of life.
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The idea of retiring is like killing yourself. It’s almost like Hari Kari. I intend to live to a 100 and go down in history.
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It’s great to be here. It’s great to be anywhere.
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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
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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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Women are a beautiful complication, and I look forward to far more beauties and far more complications.
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It might appear that nothing is happening, but that’s actually when it really happens.
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I personally believe that most people that play an instrument would be able to write a few songs here and there. But they say, “I tried, I can’t do it” and give up and don’t try it again; they get too discouraged.
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A painter’s got a canvas. The writer’s got reams of empty paper. A musician has silence.
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I’ve never had my hair cut by anybody, I do it all myself.
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It’s one thing to play a Muddy Waters song. It’s another thing to play with him.
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One of the great things about songwrighting; it’s not an intellectual experience.
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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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