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I only get ill when I give up drugs. I don’t have a drug problem, I have a police problem.

Keith Richards

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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Blow Father Myself Resistance
Love has sold more songs than you’ve had hot dinners.
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Food Love Song Yourself
Why would you want to be anything else if you’re Mick Jagger?
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Change Fame Identity Yourself
But I’m not here just to make records and money. I’m here to say something and to touch other people, sometimes in a cry of desperation: “Do you know this feeling?
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Desperate Feeling Money People Record Touch Yourself
George Jones is a national treasure and should be treated accordingly. A unique style so often emulated even inadvertently.
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National Treasure Unique
To a musician or songwriter, your canvas is silence.
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Canvas Musician Silence Yourself
Everybody’s got a different way of telling a story – and has different stories to tell.
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Different Story Talk Way
We age not by holding on to youth, but by letting ourselves grow and embracing whatever youthful parts remain.
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Age Growth Ourselves Youth
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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Ideas Job Myself Nurture Understand Word
Rock and Roll: Music for the neck downwards.
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Music Neck Rock Role
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.
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Comfortable Feeling Myself Time
You don’t find a style. A style finds you.
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Finding Style Yourself
The idea of retiring is like killing yourself. It’s almost like Hari Kari. I intend to live to a 100 and go down in history.
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History Ideas Myself Retirement
You know, the BBC had not been particularly generous in its deliverance of blues and esoteric kinds of music.
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Blue Deliver Kind Known Music Yourself
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
I’ve never had a problem with drugs. I’ve had problems with the police.
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Drugs Myself Police Problem

I only get ill when I give up drugs. I don’t have a drug problem, I have a police problem.

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