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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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Keith Richards
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: December 18
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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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I wouldn't warm to [Chuck Berry] even if I was cremated next to him.
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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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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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Retire? I can't spell the word. I'd play in a wheelchair.
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There's just certain styles of playing that you do play in your own way. Maybe it's in the way your fingers bend, for all I know. And so whenever you pick up the guitar it's not so much the sound of the instrument itself, it's like the ting that you add onto it-the attitude.
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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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To make a rock'n'roll record, technology is the least important thing.
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The idea of retiring is like killing yourself. It's almost like Hari Kari. I intend to live to a 100 and go down in history.
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Poison's not bad. It's a matter of how much.
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Some of my most outrageous nights- I can only believe actually happened because of corroborating evidence. No wonder I'm famous for partying! The ultimate party- if it's any good- you can't remember it.
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There's no substitute for live work to keep a band together.
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When I started, all I wanted to do was play like Chuck (Berry)
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It's good to be anywhere.
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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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Songwriting's a weird game.
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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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Yes, I've been trepanned. That's quite an interesting experience, especially for my brain surgeon, who saw my thoughts flying around in my brain.
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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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If you're going to kick authority in the teeth, you might as well use both feet.
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