Anything you throw yourself into, you better get yourself out of.
KEITH RICHARDSBut I’m not here just to make records and money. I’m here to say something and to touch other people, sometimes in a cry of desperation: “Do you know this feeling?
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I mean, give me a guitar, give me a piano, give me a broom and string, I wouldn’t get bored anywhere.
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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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[John] Belushi was an extreme experience even by my standards.
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I have no idea what the audience makes of me.
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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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Everybody starts by imitating their heroes. For me it was Chuck Berry and Muddy Waters.
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Songwriting’s a weird game.
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We all have our own personal laboratories. Life is an experiment, and it’s just a matter of getting the alchemical or chemical combination right.
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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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I’ve never had a problem with drugs. I’ve had problems with the police.
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It’s a privilege just to wake up to a new day.
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One minute I’m standing at Ronnie Scott’s getting a standing ovation and the next minute, I’m on a marble slab
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Whatever side I take, I know well that I will be blamed.
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I don’t trust doctors. It’s not to say there ain’t some good ones, but on a general level, no, I wouldn’t trust ’em at all.
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I mean some doctor told me I had six months to live and I went to their funeral.
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