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If you’ve gotta think about being cool, you ain’t cool.

Keith Richards

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
There’s a demon in me, and he’s still around. Without the dope, we have a bit more of a chat these days.
KEITH RICHARDS

Day Demon Himself Myself
You can’t accuse me of anything I haven’t already confessed to.
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Accuse Confession Yourself
Some people think I’m a mythical genius, others think I’m a junkie madman.
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Genius Myself People Thinking
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
What is life but playing with time?
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Life Play Time
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 only get ill when I give up drugs. I don’t have a drug problem, I have a police problem.
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Drugs Give Up Myself Police Problem
The rock’s easy, but the roll is another thing.
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Music Rock Roll
To a musician or songwriter, your canvas is silence.
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Canvas Musician Silence Yourself
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
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
You don’t find a style. A style finds you.
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Finding Style Yourself
Everyone talks about rock these days; the problem is they forget about the roll.
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Music Problem Roll Talk
If you say I’m great, thank you very much. But I know what I am. I could be better, man, you know?
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Better Greatness Man Myself
I’ve got nothing against daylight. I don’t live totally nocturnally. Only when I feel like it. Which is most of the time.
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Day Feeling Light Time

If you’ve gotta think about being cool, you ain’t cool.

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