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It's an addiction... and addiction is something I should know something about.

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Keith Richards
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: December 18
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If you're cool, you don't know nothing about it. It just is, or you ain't.
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To me, life is a wild animal. You hope to deal with it when it leaps at you.
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Music is a necessity. After food, air, water and warmth, music is the next necessity of life.
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My father. I snorted my father. He was cremated and I couldn't resist grinding him up with a little bit of blow.
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[joking about the length of the Rolling Stones' career] 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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It might appear that nothing is happening, but that's actually when it really happens.
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Good music comes out of people playing together, knowing what they want to do and going for it. You have to sweat over it and bug it to death. You can't do it by pushing buttons and watching a TV screen.
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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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Art is the last thing I'm worried about when I'm writing a song. As far as I'm concerned, art is just short for 'Arthur.'
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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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There's a demon in me, and he's still around. Without the dope, we have a bit more of a chat these days.
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I'm not getting old I'm evolving.
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You're always learning about this thing everytime you pick it up
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I look for ambiguity when I'm writing because life is ambiguous.
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Nobody wants to get old, but nobody wants to die young either.
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