One minute I’m standing at Ronnie Scott’s getting a standing ovation and the next minute, I’m on a marble slab
KEITH RICHARDSEverybody 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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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 like it here in Austin. Anybody got a room?
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Love has sold more songs than you’ve had hot dinners.
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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.
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If you’re going to kick authority in the teeth, you might as well use both feet.
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Women are a beautiful complication, and I look forward to far more beauties and far more complications.
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I mean some doctor told me I had six months to live and I went to their funeral.
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Some things get better with age. Like me.
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I look for ambiguity when I’m writing because life is ambiguous.
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The idea of retiring is like killing yourself. It’s almost like Hari Kari. I intend to live to a 100 and go down in history.
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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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I achieved everything I wanted to achieve by being in the Rolling Stones and making records.
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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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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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I’m free of hypochondria– although I’ve got everything else.
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