I haven’t stopped smoking; anything.
KEITH RICHARDSEverybody starts by imitating their heroes. For me it was Chuck Berry and Muddy Waters.
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I don’t wave a flag for anything. I’m a musician.
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Songwriting’s a weird game.
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I achieved everything I wanted to achieve by being in the Rolling Stones and making records.
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It’s a privilege just to wake up to a new day.
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Retire? I can’t spell the word. I’d play in a wheelchair.
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I’ve got nothing against daylight. I don’t live totally nocturnally. Only when I feel like it. Which is most of the time.
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If you say I’m great, thank you very much. But I know what I am. I could be better, man, you know?
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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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Fame has killed more very talented guys than drugs. Jimi Hendrix didn’t die of an overdose, he died of fame.
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Love has sold more songs than you’ve had hot dinners.
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Some things get better with age. Like me.
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I don’t encourage anybody to do what I do, you know? Why should you? More for me!
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If you stay up, you get the songs that everyone else misses because they’re asleep.
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What Muddy Waters did for us is what we should do for others. It’s the old thing, what you want written on your tombstone as a musician: ‘He passed it on.’
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I only get ill when I give up drugs. I don’t have a drug problem, I have a police problem.
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