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Everybody’s got a different way of telling a story – and has different stories to tell.

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
If you’re going to kick authority in the teeth, you might as well use both feet.
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Authority Yourself
Why would you want to be anything else if you’re Mick Jagger?
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Change Fame Identity 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
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
Some things get better with age. Like me.
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Age Better Instagram Captions
I have no idea what the audience makes of me.
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Audience Ideas Myself
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
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
Love has sold more songs than you’ve had hot dinners.
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Food Love Song Yourself
[John] Belushi was an extreme experience even by my standards.
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Experience Myself Standard
I don’t wave a flag for anything. I’m a musician.
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Flag Musician Myself Wave
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
To a musician or songwriter, your canvas is silence.
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Canvas Musician Silence Yourself
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
It’s one thing to play a Muddy Waters song. It’s another thing to play with him.
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Himself Play

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