One minute I’m standing at Ronnie Scott’s getting a standing ovation and the next minute, I’m on a marble slab
KEITH RICHARDSYou have the sun, you have the moon, you have the air that you breathe – and you have the Rolling Stones!
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My life is full of broken halos.
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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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I don’t regret nothing.
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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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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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Women are a beautiful complication, and I look forward to far more beauties and far more complications.
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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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Some things get better with age. Like me.
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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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Everyone talks about rock these days; the problem is they forget about the roll.
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Some people think I’m a mythical genius, others think I’m a junkie madman.
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It’s one thing to play a Muddy Waters song. It’s another thing to play with him.
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I only get ill when I give up drugs. I don’t have a drug problem, I have a police problem.
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Everybody starts by imitating their heroes. For me it was Chuck Berry and Muddy Waters.
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I achieved everything I wanted to achieve by being in the Rolling Stones and making records.
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The public library is the great equaliser.
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I’m all for a quiet life. I just didn’t get one.
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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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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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I’ve never turned blue in someone else’s bathroom. I consider that the height of bad manners.
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I like it here in Austin. Anybody got a room?
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You’ve got the sun, you’ve got the moon, and you’ve got the Rolling Stones.
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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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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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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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