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When I listen to what I did under the influence – 10 years of work – I don’t think it either enhanced or impaired me. It didn’t have that much to do with it.

Keith Richards

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
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
True friends. Hardest thing to find, but you never look for them – they found you ; you just grow into each other
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Each Other Finding Friendship True
If you’re going to kick authority in the teeth, you might as well use both feet.
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Authority Yourself
It’s a privilege just to wake up to a new day.
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Day Gratitude Wake Up
Fame has killed more very talented guys than drugs. Jimi Hendrix didn’t die of an overdose, he died of fame.
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Death Fame Kill Talent
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 ain’t nothing but jazz with a hard backbeat.
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Hard Music Rock Roll
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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Bone Emotion Language Music Talk Word
Everyone talks about rock these days; the problem is they forget about the roll.
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Music Problem Roll Talk
You get onstage and make other people feel happy. Make them feel good.
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Feeling Happiness People Yourself
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
What is life but playing with time?
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Life Play Time
Retire? I can’t spell the word. I’d play in a wheelchair.
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Myself Play Retirement Spell Word
I look for ambiguity when I’m writing because life is ambiguous.
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Life Myself Writing
Anything you throw yourself into, you better get yourself out of.
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Better Throw Yourself
When you’re 20, you can’t imagine being 30. When you’re 30, you can’t imagine being 40. When you’re 40, you can’t imagine being 100.
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Age Growth Imagination Yourself
Why would you want to be anything else if you’re Mick Jagger?
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Change Fame Identity Yourself
Nobody wants to get old, but nobody wants to die young either.
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Death Old Young
I have no idea what the audience makes of me.
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Audience Ideas Myself
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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Appreciation Myself Stand
To me, life is a wild animal. You hope to deal with it when it leaps at you.
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Animal Life Wild Yourself
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
Preaching is tax free. Very little to do with God, a lot to do with money.
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God Money Preach Tax
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
What’s the big deal about still working? Retirement age is sixty-five, and that’s at a normal job – and I ain’t there yet.
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Job Myself Normal Retirement Work
I’ve never had a problem with drugs. I’ve had problems with the police.
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Drugs Myself Police Problem

When I listen to what I did under the influence – 10 years of work – I don’t think it either enhanced or impaired me. It didn’t have that much to do with it.

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When I listen to what I did under the influence – 10 years of work – I don’t think it either enhanced or impaired me. It didn’t have that much to do with it.

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