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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

I’m an unpure purist, something like that.
KEITH RICHARDS

Myself Purity
One of the great things about songwrighting; it’s not an intellectual experience.
KEITH RICHARDS

Experience Greatness Intellectual Oneself
I like it here in Austin. Anybody got a room?
KEITH RICHARDS

Country Myself Place Room
Poison’s not bad. It’s a matter of how much.
KEITH RICHARDS

Bad Poison Quantity
I don’t wave a flag for anything. I’m a musician.
KEITH RICHARDS

Flag Musician Myself Wave
Love has sold more songs than you’ve had hot dinners.
KEITH RICHARDS

Food Love Song Yourself
A painter’s got a canvas. The writer’s got reams of empty paper. A musician has silence.
KEITH RICHARDS

Canvas Musician Painter Paper Silence
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 RICHARDS

Difference Known Myself Planning
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
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
Whatever side I take, I know well that I will be blamed.
KEITH RICHARDS

Blame Known Myself Side
Preaching is tax free. Very little to do with God, a lot to do with money.
KEITH RICHARDS

God Money Preach Tax
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
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
[John] Belushi was an extreme experience even by my standards.
KEITH RICHARDS

Experience Myself Standard
To make a rock’n’roll record, technology is the least important thing.
KEITH RICHARDS

Important Record Technology

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