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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.

Keith Richards

[John] Belushi was an extreme experience even by my standards.
KEITH RICHARDS

Experience Myself Standard
When you’re 20, you can’t imagine being 30. When you’re 30, you can’t imagine being 40. When you’re 40, you can’t imagine being 100.
KEITH RICHARDS

Age Growth Imagination Yourself
I’m free of hypochondria– although I’ve got everything else.
KEITH RICHARDS

Freedom Myself Sick
The public library is the great equaliser.
KEITH RICHARDS

Greatness Library One Liner Public
One of the great things about songwrighting; it’s not an intellectual experience.
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Experience Greatness Intellectual Oneself
It’s an addiction and addiction is something I should know something about.
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Addiction Known Myself
Guitar is easy, all it takes is 5 fingers, 6 strings and 1 a**hole.
KEITH RICHARDS

Guitar Instrument Musician
You have the sun, you have the moon, you have the air that you breathe – and you have the Rolling Stones!
KEITH RICHARDS

Breathe Moon Sun Yourself
Everybody starts by imitating their heroes. For me it was Chuck Berry and Muddy Waters.
KEITH RICHARDS

Heroes Imitation Myself Start
What Muddy Waters did for us is what we should do for others. It’s the old thing, what you want written on your tombstone as a musician: ‘He passed it on.’
KEITH RICHARDS

Himself Musician Old Water Writing
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.
KEITH RICHARDS

Alive Known Live Planet Reason
You get onstage and make other people feel happy. Make them feel good.
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Feeling Happiness People Yourself
I’ve got nothing against daylight. I don’t live totally nocturnally. Only when I feel like it. Which is most of the time.
KEITH RICHARDS

Day Feeling Light Time
Preaching is tax free. Very little to do with God, a lot to do with money.
KEITH RICHARDS

God Money Preach Tax
It might appear that nothing is happening, but that’s actually when it really happens.
KEITH RICHARDS

Calm Nature Silence Yourself
It’s great to be here. It’s great to be anywhere.
KEITH RICHARDS

Existence Gratitude Greatness

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