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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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Love has sold more songs than you've had hot dinners.
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I can sustain the impetus over the long tours we do is by feeding off the energy that we get back from an audience. That's my fuel. All i've got is this burning energy, especially when i've got a guitar in my hands.
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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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I never thought I was wasted, but I probably was.
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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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Preaching is tax free. Very little to do with God, a lot to do with money...
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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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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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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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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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The rock's easy, but the roll is another thing.
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Whatever side I take, I know well that I will be blamed.
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I'm not getting old I'm evolving.
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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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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 looked upon myself, in a sort of romantic and silly way, as like a laboratory.
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It's called the mysterious rhythm of life, ... I can't quite account for it. It's probably an addiction, quite honestly. I need that shot of stage every two or three years.
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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.
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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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Hey, we just enjoy it. I think we think we're getting the hang of this thing, you know?