Why would you want to be anything else if you’re Mick Jagger?
KEITH RICHARDSEverybody starts by imitating their heroes. For me it was Chuck Berry and Muddy Waters.
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To make a rock’n’roll record, technology is the least important thing.
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I never thought I was wasted, but I probably was.
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You have the sun, you have the moon, you have the air that you breathe – and you have the Rolling Stones!
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To me, the main thing about living on this planet is to know who the hell you are and be real about it. That’s the reason I’m still alive.
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One of the great things about songwrighting; it’s not an intellectual experience.
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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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I’ve never had inner turmoil about all this. You find a lot of people these days who cannot stand to be alone. You could lock me up in solitary for weeks on end, and I’d keep myself amused.
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I’m not getting old I’m evolving.
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Everybody starts by imitating their heroes. For me it was Chuck Berry and Muddy Waters.
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Nobody wants to get old, but nobody wants to die young either.
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True friends. Hardest thing to find, but you never look for them – they found you ; you just grow into each other
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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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If you stay up, you get the songs that everyone else misses because they’re asleep.
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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’ve never had a problem with drugs. I’ve had problems with the police.
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