Songwriting’s a weird game.
KEITH RICHARDSWe age not by holding on to youth, but by letting ourselves grow and embracing whatever youthful parts remain.
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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 read the Bible sometimes, but it bores me to death. I just want to know what other people find so bloody fascinating.
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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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Why would you want to be anything else if you’re Mick Jagger?
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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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No broken hearts, no broken necks.
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The Stones in a club is still the ultimate rush.
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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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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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We age not by holding on to youth, but by letting ourselves grow and embracing whatever youthful parts remain.
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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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I’m not getting old I’m evolving.
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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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This is the rock ‘n’ roll life, and you had to invent it as you went along. There was no textbook to say how you operate this machinery.
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If you stay up, you get the songs that everyone else misses because they’re asleep.
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