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.
KEITH RICHARDSWe all have our own personal laboratories. Life is an experiment, and it’s just a matter of getting the alchemical or chemical combination right.
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Poison’s not bad. It’s a matter of how much.
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Whatever side I take, I know well that I will be blamed.
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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 am not doing it just for the money or for you. I am doing it for me.
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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.
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I’m not getting old I’m evolving.
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If you’ve gotta think about being cool, you ain’t cool.
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Everybody’s got a different way of telling a story – and has different stories to tell.
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I have no idea what the audience makes of me.
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I mean some doctor told me I had six months to live and I went to their funeral.
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If you stay up, you get the songs that everyone else misses because they’re asleep.
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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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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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One of the great things about songwrighting; it’s not an intellectual experience.
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