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

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.
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Beautiful Listening Reading Song Touch
I achieved everything I wanted to achieve by being in the Rolling Stones and making records.
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Achievement Myself Record
To me, my biggest fear is getting a big head, and that is when I get the hammer. Because it’s very easy in this game to believe you’re something special.
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Big Fear Game Special Yourself
I looked upon myself, in a sort of romantic and silly way, as like a laboratory.
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Labor Myself Romantic Way
If you’ve gotta think about being cool, you ain’t cool.
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Cool Thinking Yourself
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
If you stay up, you get the songs that everyone else misses because they’re asleep.
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Missing Sleep Song Stay 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
I’m not getting old I’m evolving.
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Evolution Myself Old
There’s a demon in me, and he’s still around. Without the dope, we have a bit more of a chat these days.
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Day Demon Himself Myself
You don’t find a style. A style finds you.
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Finding Style Yourself
I’m all for a quiet life. I just didn’t get one.
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Life Oneself Quiet
Songwriting’s a weird game.
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Game One Liner Weird
Poison’s not bad. It’s a matter of how much.
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Bad Poison Quantity
I never sleep alone. If there is no one to sleep next to, I’ll sleep next to a stuffed animal. It makes me feel secure and safe. It’s a little embarrassing to admit it; I’m an old man now. It’s important to me though.
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Alone Embarrassment Man Myself Old Secure Sleep
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
Retire? I can’t spell the word. I’d play in a wheelchair.
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Myself Play Retirement Spell Word
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
I never plan anything, which is probably the difference between Mick and myself. Mick needs to know what he’s gonna do tomorrow and I’m just happy to wake up to see who’s hanging around. Mick’s rock and I’m roll.
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Difference Known Myself Planning
Yes, I’ve been trepanned. That’s quite an interesting experience, especially for my brain surgeon, who saw my thoughts flying around in my brain.
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Brain Experience Interesting Myself Quite Thinking
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 make a rock’n’roll record, technology is the least important thing.
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Important Record Technology
I’m an unpure purist, something like that.
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Myself Purity
You get onstage and make other people feel happy. Make them feel good.
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Feeling Happiness People Yourself
Guitar is easy, all it takes is 5 fingers, 6 strings and 1 a**hole.
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Guitar Instrument Musician
I am not doing it just for the money or for you. I am doing it for me.
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Money Myself Yourself
I’ve never turned blue in someone else’s bathroom. I consider that the height of bad manners.
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Bad Blue Manners Myself Privacy

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

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