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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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Songwriting's a weird game. I never intended to become one - I fell into this by mistake, and I can't get out of it. It fascinates me. I like to point out the rawer points of life.
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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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To me, it's important to prove that this isn't just teenage kids' s**t and you should feel embarrassed when you're over forty and still doing it.
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Love has sold more songs than you've had hot dinners.
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The electric guitar meant that you could have a band with a drummer and a couple of guitars. And that put a lot of horn players out of work.
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I never thought I was wasted, but I probably was.
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Preaching is tax free. Very little to do with God, a lot to do with money...
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It's basically against the whole idea of what always made rock&roll music interesting to me. I thought it was an unassailable outlet for some pure and natural expressions of rebellion. It was one channel you could take without havin' to kiss ass, you know? And right now it just seems like they're on a big daisy chain, each kissin' each other's asses.
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Whatever side I take, I know well that I will be blamed.
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Nobody wants to get old, but nobody wants to die young either.
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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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I'm not getting old I'm evolving.
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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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But I've always felt very comfortable on stage, even if I screw up. It always felt like a dog, this is my turf, piss around it. While I'm here, nothing else can happen. All I can do is screw up. Otherwise, have a good time.
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The rock's easy, but the roll is another thing.
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I wouldn't warm to Chuck Berry even if I was cremated next to him.
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The Stones in a club is still the ultimate rush.
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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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George Jones is a national treasure and should be treated accordingly. A unique style so often emulated even inadvertently.
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I looked upon myself, in a sort of romantic and silly way, as like a laboratory.
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There are certain guys that are band players and there's certain guys that ain't. If there's anybody lazier than me, it's Eric (Clapton).
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I only get ill when I give up drugs...
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It made me sick - my name's Keith Richards. It hardly makes it against Howlin' Wolf or Muddy Waters, does it? On my first guitar I had Boy Blue written - just pathetic. But that was as good as I got at the time.
Keith Richards The Rolling Stones