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We age not by holding on to youth, but by letting ourselves grow and embracing whatever youthful parts remain.

Keith Richards

Some people think I’m a mythical genius, others think I’m a junkie madman.
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Genius Myself People Thinking
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.
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Alone End Myself People Stand
Music works in mysterious ways. Once it goes in you have no idea what it can do to you.
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Ideas Music Mysterious Work Yourself
If you are going to get wasted, then get wasted elegantly.
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Alcohol Wasted Yourself
I was in awe sometimes listening to Mick Taylor . Everything was there in his playing – the melodic touch, a beautiful sustain and a way of reading a song.
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Beautiful Listening Reading Song Touch
I achieved everything I wanted to achieve by being in the Rolling Stones and making records.
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Achievement Myself Record
I haven’t stopped smoking; anything.
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Myself Smoking Stop
Rock and Roll: Music for the neck downwards.
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Music Neck Rock Role
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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Blue Learning Monastery Realize Sing Thinking
Nobody wants to get old, but nobody wants to die young either.
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Death Old Young
A painter’s got a canvas. The writer’s got reams of empty paper. A musician has silence.
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Canvas Musician Painter Paper Silence
I have no idea what the audience makes of me.
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Audience Ideas Myself
What is life but playing with time?
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Life Play Time
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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Blood Fascination Myself People Reading
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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Death Disappointment Myself
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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Affect Belong Growth Library Place Yourself

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