Fame has killed more very talented guys than drugs. Jimi Hendrix didn’t die of an overdose, he died of fame.
KEITH RICHARDSWhat’s the big deal about still working? Retirement age is sixty-five, and that’s at a normal job – and I ain’t there yet.
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I looked upon myself, in a sort of romantic and silly way, as like a laboratory.
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I’ve never had my hair cut by anybody, I do it all myself.
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Rock and Roll: Music for the neck downwards.
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Some things get better with age. Like me.
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Anything you throw yourself into, you better get yourself out of.
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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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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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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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Why would you want to be anything else if you’re Mick Jagger?
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It’s an addiction and addiction is something I should know something about.
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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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Music is a necessity. After food, air, water and warmth, music is the next necessity of life.
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The public library is the great equaliser.
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I’ve got nothing against daylight. I don’t live totally nocturnally. Only when I feel like it. Which is most of the time.
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I am not doing it just for the money or for you. I am doing it for me.
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