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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

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.
KEITH RICHARDS

Beautiful Listening Reading Song Touch
If you’re going to kick authority in the teeth, you might as well use both feet.
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Authority Yourself
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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Invention Life Machine Operation Rock
Some things get better with age. Like me.
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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.
KEITH RICHARDS

Comfortable Feeling Myself Time
I’ve never had a problem with drugs. I’ve had problems with the police.
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Drugs Myself Police Problem
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
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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Combination Experiment Life Personal Right
Women are a beautiful complication, and I look forward to far more beauties and far more complications.
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Beautiful Complication Myself Woman
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.
KEITH RICHARDS

Growth Reach Thinking True Yourself
I look for ambiguity when I’m writing because life is ambiguous.
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Life Myself Writing
The public library is the great equaliser.
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Greatness Library One Liner Public
I mean some doctor told me I had six months to live and I went to their funeral.
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Death Funny Live Myself
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
You get onstage and make other people feel happy. Make them feel good.
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Feeling Happiness People Yourself
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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Art Hear Musician Myself See

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