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Some people think I’m a mythical genius, others think I’m a junkie madman.

Keith Richards

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
The rock’s easy, but the roll is another thing.
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Music Rock Roll
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
I’m free of hypochondria– although I’ve got everything else.
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Freedom Myself Sick
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
Women are a beautiful complication, and I look forward to far more beauties and far more complications.
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Beautiful Complication Myself Woman
Everybody thinks you reach a certain age and you’re a grownup, but it’s not true. Nobody grows up until the day they croak.
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Growth Reach Thinking True Yourself
It’s great to be here. It’s great to be anywhere.
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Existence Gratitude Greatness
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
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
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
Poison’s not bad. It’s a matter of how much.
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Bad Poison Quantity
If you’re cool, you don’t know nothing about it. It just is, or you ain’t.
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Cool Known Myself
I’m not getting old I’m evolving.
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Evolution Myself Old
No broken hearts, no broken necks.
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Break Heart Broken Neck
It’s one thing to play a Muddy Waters song. It’s another thing to play with him.
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Himself Play
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
I don’t encourage anybody to do what I do, you know? Why should you? More for me!
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Body Encouragement Known Myself
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
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
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
Let me be clear about this. I don’t have a drug problem. I have a police problem.
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Drugs Police Problem
I’ve never had my hair cut by anybody, I do it all myself.
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Hairs Myself
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
Retire? I can’t spell the word. I’d play in a wheelchair.
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Myself Play Retirement Spell Word
Some people think I’m a mythical genius, others think I’m a junkie madman.
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Genius Myself People Thinking

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