This is the thing with the Stones. You keep thinking 'Come on, how long can you keep this thing going?' But I guess the answer is until we don't feel that we're improving, to me, and I think to everybody else in the Stones, the last tour was probably, musically speaking, the best so far. So there's always that feeling of something more to come. Some anticipation. The energy is there.

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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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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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I've never had a problem with drugs. I've had problems with the police.

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When you are growing up there are two institutional places that affect you most powerfully: the church, which belongs to God, and the public library, which belongs to 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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True friends. Hardest thing to find, but you never look for them - they found you ; you just grow into each other

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If you don't know the blues... there's no point in picking up the guitar and playing rock and roll or any other form of popular music.

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It might appear that nothing is happening, but that's actually when it really happens.

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I'm not getting old I'm evolving.

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Some things get better with age. Like me.

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I'm free of hypochondria-- although I've got

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Anything you throw yourself into, you better get yourself out of.

Keith Richards

If you've gotta think about being cool, you ain't cool.

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You don't find a style. A style finds you

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If you are going to get wasted, then get wasted

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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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To me, the main thing about living on this planet is to know who the hell you are and be real about it. That's the reason I'm still alive.

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

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What is life but playing with time?

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