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And then I think we realized, like any young guys, that blues are not learned in a monastery. You’ve got to go out there and get your heart broke and then come back and then you can sing the blues.

Keith Richards

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.
KEITH RICHARDS

Job Myself Normal Retirement Work
We age not by holding on to youth, but by letting ourselves grow and embracing whatever youthful parts remain.
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Age Growth Ourselves Youth
It’s a privilege just to wake up to a new day.
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Day Gratitude Wake Up
Love has sold more songs than you’ve had hot dinners.
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Food Love Song Yourself
I’m an unpure purist, something like that.
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Myself Purity
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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Art Hear Musician Myself See
You get onstage and make other people feel happy. Make them feel good.
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Feeling Happiness People Yourself
If you are going to get wasted, then get wasted elegantly.
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Alcohol Wasted Yourself
A painter’s got a canvas. The writer’s got reams of empty paper. A musician has silence.
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Canvas Musician Painter Paper Silence
I’ve never turned blue in someone else’s bathroom. I consider that the height of bad manners.
KEITH RICHARDS

Bad Blue Manners Myself Privacy
You’ve got the sun, you’ve got the moon, and you’ve got the Rolling Stones.
KEITH RICHARDS

Moon Stone Sun Yourself
Guitar is easy, all it takes is 5 fingers, 6 strings and 1 a**hole.
KEITH RICHARDS

Guitar Instrument Musician
I am not doing it just for the money or for you. I am doing it for me.
KEITH RICHARDS

Money Myself Yourself
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.
KEITH RICHARDS

Big Fear Game Special Yourself
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.
KEITH RICHARDS

Influence Listening Myself Thinking Work
Preaching is tax free. Very little to do with God, a lot to do with money.
KEITH RICHARDS

God Money Preach Tax

And then I think we realized, like any young guys, that blues are not learned in a monastery. You’ve got to go out there and get your heart broke and then come back and then you can sing the blues.

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And then I think we realized, like any young guys, that blues are not learned in a monastery. You’ve got to go out there and get your heart broke and then come back and then you can sing the blues.

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