If you say I’m great, thank you very much. But I know what I am. I could be better, man, you know?
KEITH RICHARDSWhen 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.
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This is the rock ‘n’ roll life, and you had to invent it as you went along. There was no textbook to say how you operate this machinery.
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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.
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Everybody’s got a different way of telling a story – and has different stories to tell.
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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.
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I don’t trust doctors. It’s not to say there ain’t some good ones, but on a general level, no, I wouldn’t trust ’em at all.
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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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It’s an addiction and addiction is something I should know something about.
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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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Music works in mysterious ways. Once it goes in you have no idea what it can do to you.
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I don’t wave a flag for anything. I’m a musician.
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Everyone talks about rock these days; the problem is they forget about the roll.
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Preaching is tax free. Very little to do with God, a lot to do with money.
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To make a rock’n’roll record, technology is the least important thing.
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Rock and Roll: Music for the neck downwards.
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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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