I’ve never turned blue in someone else’s bathroom. I consider that the height of bad manners.
KEITH RICHARDSMusic is a language that doesn’t speak in particular words. It speaks in emotions, and if it’s in the bones, it’s in the bones.
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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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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 minute I’m standing at Ronnie Scott’s getting a standing ovation and the next minute, I’m on a marble slab
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You have the sun, you have the moon, you have the air that you breathe – and you have the Rolling Stones!
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The public library is the great equaliser.
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I’m all for a quiet life. I just didn’t get one.
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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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I personally believe that most people that play an instrument would be able to write a few songs here and there. But they say, “I tried, I can’t do it” and give up and don’t try it again; they get too discouraged.
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Anything you throw yourself into, you better get yourself out of.
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Retire? I can’t spell the word. I’d play in a wheelchair.
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It’s great to be here. It’s great to be anywhere.
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We all have our own personal laboratories. Life is an experiment, and it’s just a matter of getting the alchemical or chemical combination right.
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Everybody’s got a different way of telling a story – and has different stories to tell.
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I like it here in Austin. Anybody got a room?
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Music is a language that doesn’t speak in particular words. It speaks in emotions, and if it’s in the bones, it’s in the bones.
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