One minute I’m standing at Ronnie Scott’s getting a standing ovation and the next minute, I’m on a marble slab
KEITH RICHARDSThis 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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Anything you throw yourself into, you better get yourself out of.
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Everybody starts by imitating their heroes. For me it was Chuck Berry and Muddy Waters.
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You have the sun, you have the moon, you have the air that you breathe – and you have the Rolling Stones!
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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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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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I haven’t stopped smoking; anything.
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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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To make a rock’n’roll record, technology is the least important thing.
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I don’t regret nothing.
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Some people think I’m a mythical genius, others think I’m a junkie madman.
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I’m all for a quiet life. I just didn’t get one.
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It’s an addiction and addiction is something I should know something about.
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I achieved everything I wanted to achieve by being in the Rolling Stones and making records.
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I’m not getting old I’m evolving.
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The electric guitar was vital in helping what I’ve achieved where would I be without it? Playing awfully quietly, for a start.
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