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My life is full of broken halos.
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To me, life is a wild animal. You hope to deal with it when it leaps at you.
Keith Richards The Rolling Stones
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Well, I'm not putting death on the agenda. I don't want to see my old friend Lucifer just yet. He's the guy I'm gonna see, isn't it? I'm not going to the Other Place, let's face it.
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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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Another thing to do with the blues is how they were recorded. They were done on the quick, and some of that stuff was made on wire, not even tape, let alone digital.
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Everybody's got a different way of telling a story - and has different stories to tell.
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One of the great things about songwriting; it's not an intellectual experience
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A painter's got a canvas. The writer's got reams of empty paper. A musician has silence.
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I've never tried to achieve anything. I achieved everything I wanted to achieve by being in the Rolling Stones and making records.
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We all have our own personal laboratories. Life is an experiment, and it's just a matter of getting the alchemical or chemical combination right.
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It's a privilege just to wake up to a new day.
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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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I'd been an expert at taking beatings. Then I had a lucky break where I did a bully in, by total sheer luck. ... One minute I was the mark, and with just one swift move, I put the big man in school down. ... Once he was down, the whole atmosphere in the schoolyard changed. A huge cloud seemed to be lifted from me. ... I'd never been aware the cloud was so large.
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What is life but playing with time?
Keith Richards The Rolling Stones
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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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One of the great things about songwrighting; it's not an intellectual experience
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Before Elvis, everything was in black and white. Then came Elvis. Zoom, glorious Technicolor.
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Everything they’d been brought up not to do, they could do at a rock-and-roll show.
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The public library is the great equaliser.
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I read the Bible sometimes, but it bores me to death. I just want to know what other people find so bloody fascinating.
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It might appear that nothing is happening, but that's actually when it really happens.
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I haven't stopped smoking...anything...
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What Muddy Waters did for us is what we should do for others. It's the old thing, what you want written on your tombstone as a musician: 'He passed it on.'
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There's a demon in me, and he's still around. Without the dope, we have a bit more of a chat these days.
Keith Richards The Rolling Stones