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"Everyone talks about rock these days; the problem is they forget about the roll."
Forget

"I've always been suspicious of TV, I've always found music and video to be an unhappy marriage."
Marriage

"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."
Work

"I have no idea what the audience makes of me."
Idea

"There's no substitute for live work to keep a band together."
Work

"The only things Mick and I disagree about is the band, the music and what we do."
Music

"Let me be clear about this. I don't have a drug problem. I have a police problem."
Police

"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."
Music

"I never thought I was wasted, but I probably was."
Thought

"If you're going to kick authority in the teeth, you might as well use two feet."
Authority
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"Opium makes you quick-witted - perhaps only because it calms the nerves and stills the emotions. Nothing, not even death, seems so important."
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Personal Development

"I was very laced with drugs myself, but Fred seemed to be even more so than me. That might have had something to do with it. That might have had something to do with nobody wanting to play my records, too, I don't know."
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"Stay away from drugs. They're not worth it. I've tried, but there's none of them that's worth it."
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Personal Development

"I bought a gun and chose drugs instead."
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"Hallucinations are bad enough. But after awhile you learn to cope with things like seeing your dead grandmother crawling up your leg with a knife in her teeth. Most acid fanciers can handle this sort of thing. But nobody can handle that other trip-the possibility that any freak with $1.98 can walk into the Circus-Circus and suddenly appear in the sky over downtown Las Vegas twelve times the size of God, howling anything that comes into his head. No, this is not a good town for psychedelic drugs."
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"It's so easy for a kid to join a gang, to do drugs... we should make it that easy to be involved in football and academics."
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"I stayed a virgin until I was 23. I didn't do drugs or drink or smoke."
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"Drugs are marvelous if you want to escape, but reality is so rich, why escape?"
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"But the fact is, nobody gets off drugs unless they really want to, and I really wanted to."
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"I can meet any producer in Hollywood and look them in the eye, knowing I didn't sleep with them, or do drugs with them."
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