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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.

Keith Richards

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.
KEITH RICHARDS

Age Growth Imagination Yourself
I am not doing it just for the money or for you. I am doing it for me.
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Money Myself Yourself
Preaching is tax free. Very little to do with God, a lot to do with money.
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God Money Preach Tax
Anything you throw yourself into, you better get yourself out of.
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Better Throw Yourself
Retire? I can’t spell the word. I’d play in a wheelchair.
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Myself Play Retirement Spell Word
I don’t wave a flag for anything. I’m a musician.
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Flag Musician Myself Wave
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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Beautiful Listening Reading Song Touch
Everyone talks about rock these days; the problem is they forget about the roll.
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Music Problem Roll Talk
I look for ambiguity when I’m writing because life is ambiguous.
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Life Myself Writing
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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Blue Learning Monastery Realize Sing Thinking
If you are going to get wasted, then get wasted elegantly.
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Alcohol Wasted Yourself
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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Invention Life Machine Operation Rock
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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Death Disappointment Myself
Everybody’s got a different way of telling a story – and has different stories to tell.
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Different Story Talk Way
I don’t encourage anybody to do what I do, you know? Why should you? More for me!
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Body Encouragement Known Myself
Some things get better with age. Like me.
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Age Better Instagram Captions
A painter’s got a canvas. The writer’s got reams of empty paper. A musician has silence.
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Canvas Musician Painter Paper Silence
We age not by holding on to youth, but by letting ourselves grow and embracing whatever youthful parts remain.
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Age Growth Ourselves Youth
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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Difference Known Myself Planning
The public library is the great equaliser.
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Greatness Library One Liner Public
I’m not getting old I’m evolving.
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Evolution Myself Old
If you stay up, you get the songs that everyone else misses because they’re asleep.
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Missing Sleep Song Stay Yourself
Rock and roll ain’t nothing but jazz with a hard backbeat.
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Hard Music Rock Roll
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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Job Myself Normal Retirement Work
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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Alive Known Live Planet Reason
If you’re going to kick authority in the teeth, you might as well use both feet.
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Authority Yourself
To make a rock’n’roll record, technology is the least important thing.
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Important Record Technology

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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