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When I started, all I wanted to do was play like Chuck (Berry)

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Keith Richards
Age: 80
Born: 1943
Born: December 18
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I consider my job [being a musician] is to have a little idea and nurture it and put it in some form that everybody else can understand and then sort of pass it on. It's really a passing through. In other words, you receive and you transmit.
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I looked upon myself, in a sort of romantic and silly way, as like a laboratory.
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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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My life is full of broken halos.
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I never plan anything, which is probably the difference between Mick and myself. Mick needs to know what he's gonna do tomorrow and I'm just happy to wake up to see who's hanging around. Mick's rock and I'm roll.
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You see, to me, the art of music is listening to it, not playing it. The real art of it is hearing it.
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I don't think rock n' roll songwriters should worry about art. I don't think it comes into it...as far as I'm concerned, Art is just short for Arthur.
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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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Retire? I can't spell the word. I'd play in a wheelchair.
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I was number 1 on the who's likely to die list for 10 years...I was really disappointed when I fell off that list.
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To make a rock'n'roll record, technology is the least important thing.
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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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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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I never sleep alone. If there is no one to sleep next to, I'll sleep next to a stuffed animal. It makes me feel secure and safe. It's a little embarrassing to admit it I'm an old man now. It's important to me though.
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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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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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It might appear that nothing is happening, but that's actually when it really happens.
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If you stay up, you get the songs that everyone else misses because they're asleep.
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Music works in mysterious ways. Once it goes in you have no idea what it can do to you.
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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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