Rock and Roll: Music for the neck downwards.
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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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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I don’t encourage anybody to do what I do, you know? Why should you? More for me!
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The public library is the great equaliser.
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I never sleep alone. If there is no one to sleep next to, I’ll sleep next to a stuffed animal. It makes me feel secure and safe. It’s a little embarrassing to admit it; I’m an old man now. It’s important to me though.
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To make a rock’n’roll record, technology is the least important thing.
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Let me be clear about this. I don’t have a drug problem. I have a police problem.
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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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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.
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Everyone talks about rock these days; the problem is they forget about the roll.
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You’ve got the sun, you’ve got the moon, and you’ve got the Rolling Stones.
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Songwriting’s a weird game.
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I mean, give me a guitar, give me a piano, give me a broom and string, I wouldn’t get bored anywhere.
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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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One of the great things about songwrighting; it’s not an intellectual experience.
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If you’re cool, you don’t know nothing about it. It just is, or you ain’t.
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