If you’ve gotta think about being cool, you ain’t cool.
KEITH RICHARDSFame has killed more very talented guys than drugs. Jimi Hendrix didn’t die of an overdose, he died of fame.
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You get onstage and make other people feel happy. Make them feel good.
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The public library is the great equaliser.
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Love has sold more songs than you’ve had hot dinners.
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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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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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No broken hearts, no broken necks.
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One of the great things about songwrighting; it’s not an intellectual experience.
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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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Rock and roll ain’t nothing but jazz with a hard backbeat.
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When I listen to what I did under the influence – 10 years of work – I don’t think it either enhanced or impaired me. It didn’t have that much to do with it.
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Nobody wants to get old, but nobody wants to die young either.
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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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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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Retire? I can’t spell the word. I’d play in a wheelchair.
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I don’t regret nothing.
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