Songwriting’s a weird game.
KEITH RICHARDSWhat 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.’
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I don’t regret nothing.
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I am not doing it just for the money or for you. I am doing it for me.
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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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I achieved everything I wanted to achieve by being in the Rolling Stones and making records.
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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.
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To me, my biggest fear is getting a big head, and that is when I get the hammer. Because it’s very easy in this game to believe you’re something special.
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I’ve never had my hair cut by anybody, I do it all myself.
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It’s a privilege just to wake up to a new day.
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I don’t wave a flag for anything. I’m a musician.
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I have no idea what the audience makes of me.
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I was in awe sometimes listening to Mick Taylor . Everything was there in his playing – the melodic touch, a beautiful sustain and a way of reading a song.
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You know, the BBC had not been particularly generous in its deliverance of blues and esoteric kinds of music.
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I don’t encourage anybody to do what I do, you know? Why should you? More for me!
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You get onstage and make other people feel happy. Make them feel good.
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If you stay up, you get the songs that everyone else misses because they’re asleep.
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