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.
KEITH RICHARDS
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What’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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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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To me, the main thing about living on this planet is to know who the hell you are and be real about it. That’s the reason I’m still alive.
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Songwriting’s a weird game.
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George Jones is a national treasure and should be treated accordingly. A unique style so often emulated even inadvertently.
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I was in awe sometimes listening to Mick Taylor . Everything was there in his playing – the melodic touch, a beautiful sustain and a way of reading a song.
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I was number 1 on the who’s likely to die list for 10 years. I was really disappointed when I fell off that list.
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If you don’t know the blues there’s no point in picking up the guitar and playing rock and roll or any other form of popular music.
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I don’t regret nothing.
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I occasionally borrow pot from my kids. They do a little weed occasionally. ‘Here, Dad’ – or more likely, ‘Dad, have you got any?’
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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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When you’re 20, you can’t imagine being 30. When you’re 30, you can’t imagine being 40. When you’re 40, you can’t imagine being 100.
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If you’re going to kick authority in the teeth, you might as well use both feet.
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To me, life is a wild animal. You hope to deal with it when it leaps at you.
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I’ve never had a problem with drugs. I’ve had problems with the police.
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I don’t encourage anybody to do what I do, you know? Why should you? More for me!
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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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