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It's great to be here. It's great to be anywhere.

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Keith Richards
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: December 18
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Retire? I can't spell the word. I'd play in a wheelchair.
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I look for ambiguity when I'm writing because life is ambiguous.
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Everybody starts by imitating their heroes. For me it was Chuck Berry and Muddy Waters.
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Hey, we just enjoy it. I think we think we're getting the hang of this thing, you know?
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You don't find a style. A style finds you
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I've always been suspicious of TV, I've always found music and video to be an unhappy marriage.
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One minute I'm standing at Ronnie Scott's getting a standing ovation and the next minute, I'm on a marble slab
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The rock's easy, but the roll is another thing.
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There was a knock on our dressing-room door. Our manager shouted, 'Keith! Ron! The Police are here!' Oh, man, we panicked, flushed everything down the john. Then the door opened and it was Stewart Copeland and Sting.
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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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The big rules of knife fighting are (a) do not try it at home, and (b) the whole point is never, ever use the blade. It is there to distract your opponent. While he stares at the gleaming steel, you kick his balls to kingdom come--he's all yours. Just a tip!
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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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I'd play whenever I could get my hands on an electric guitar I was trying to pick up rock'n'roll riffs and electric blues - the latest Muddy Waters. I'd spend hours and hours on the same track, back again, and back again.
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The Beatles were basically a vocal band.
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There's no substitute for live work to keep a band together.
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Before Elvis, everything was in black and white. Then came Elvis. Zoom, glorious Technicolor.
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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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Music is a language that doesn’t speak in particular words. It speaks in emotions, and if it’s in the bones, it’s in the bones.
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When I listen to what I did under the influence - 10 years of work - I don't think it either enhanced or impaired me. It didn't have that much to do with it.
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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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