Some things get better with age. Like me.
KEITH RICHARDSI look for ambiguity when I’m writing because life is ambiguous.
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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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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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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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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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I was number 1 on the who’s likely to die list for 10 years. I was really disappointed when I fell off that list.
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I occasionally borrow pot from my kids. They do a little weed occasionally. ‘Here, Dad’ – or more likely, ‘Dad, have you got any?’
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[John] Belushi was an extreme experience even by my standards.
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I look for ambiguity when I’m writing because life is ambiguous.
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Music works in mysterious ways. Once it goes in you have no idea what it can do to you.
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I’m an unpure purist, something like that.
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What’s the big deal about still working? Retirement age is sixty-five, and that’s at a normal job – and I ain’t there yet.
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Why would you want to be anything else if you’re Mick Jagger?
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No broken hearts, no broken necks.
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You get onstage and make other people feel happy. Make them feel good.
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I consider my job [being a musician] is to have a little idea and nurture it and put it in some form that everybody else can understand and then sort of pass it on. It’s really a passing through. In other words, you receive and you transmit.
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