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I'm an unpure purist, something like that.

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Keith Richards
Age: 80
Born: 1943
Born: December 18
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Some people think I'm a mythical genius, others think I'm a junkie madman.
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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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The only new technology that interests me is when it sort of throws me back soundwise. And I can think, Wow, that means I can go onstage and sound like Scotty Moore now and again!
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I wouldn't warm to [Chuck Berry] even if I was cremated next to him.
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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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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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Some things get better with age. Like me.
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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 like it here in Austin. Anybody got a room?
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