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.
KEITH RICHARDSI haven’t stopped smoking; anything.
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But I’ve always felt very comfortable on stage, even if I screw up. It always felt like a dog, this is my turf, piss around it. While I’m here, nothing else can happen. All I can do is screw up. Otherwise, have a good time.
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To me, life is a wild animal. You hope to deal with it when it leaps at you.
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Rock and Roll: Music for the neck downwards.
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I like it here in Austin. Anybody got a room?
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When you are growing up there are two institutional places that affect you most powerfully: the church, which belongs to God, and the public library, which belongs to you.
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Everybody starts by imitating their heroes. For me it was Chuck Berry and Muddy Waters.
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You see, to me, the art of music is listening to it, not playing it. The real art of it is hearing it.
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Everyone talks about rock these days; the problem is they forget about the roll.
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Rock and roll ain’t nothing but jazz with a hard backbeat.
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Preaching is tax free. Very little to do with God, a lot to do with money.
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Guitar is easy, all it takes is 5 fingers, 6 strings and 1 a**hole.
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If you’ve gotta think about being cool, you ain’t cool.
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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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When I listen to what I did under the influence – 10 years of work – I don’t think it either enhanced or impaired me. It didn’t have that much to do with it.
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Yes, I’ve been trepanned. That’s quite an interesting experience, especially for my brain surgeon, who saw my thoughts flying around in my brain.
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