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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 Richards

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
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
To me, life is a wild animal. You hope to deal with it when it leaps at you.
KEITH RICHARDS

Animal Life Wild Yourself
My father. I snorted my father. He was cremated and I couldn’t resist grinding him up with a little bit of blow.
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Blow Father Myself Resistance
I don’t encourage anybody to do what I do, you know? Why should you? More for me!
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Body Encouragement Known Myself
I’ve never had a problem with drugs. I’ve had problems with the police.
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Drugs Myself Police Problem
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
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 RICHARDS

Age Growth Imagination Yourself
[John] Belushi was an extreme experience even by my standards.
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Experience Myself Standard
To a musician or songwriter, your canvas is silence.
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Canvas Musician Silence Yourself
Anything you throw yourself into, you better get yourself out of.
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Better Throw Yourself
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
I’m free of hypochondria– although I’ve got everything else.
KEITH RICHARDS

Freedom Myself Sick
I look for ambiguity when I’m writing because life is ambiguous.
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Life Myself 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’m not getting old I’m evolving.
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Evolution Myself Old

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