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My father. I snorted my father. He was cremated and I couldn’t resist grinding him up with a little bit of blow.

Keith Richards

It’s a privilege just to wake up to a new day.
KEITH RICHARDS

Day Gratitude Wake Up
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.
KEITH RICHARDS

Difference Known Myself Planning
I personally believe that most people that play an instrument would be able to write a few songs here and there. But they say, “I tried, I can’t do it” and give up and don’t try it again; they get too discouraged.
KEITH RICHARDS

Encouragement Give Up Instrument People Play Try Writing
I’ve never had a problem with drugs. I’ve had problems with the police.
KEITH RICHARDS

Drugs Myself Police Problem
I consider my job [being a musician] is to have a little idea and nurture it and put it in some form that everybody else can understand and then sort of pass it on. It’s really a passing through. In other words, you receive and you transmit.
KEITH RICHARDS

Ideas Job Myself Nurture Understand Word
I never thought I was wasted, but I probably was.
KEITH RICHARDS

Alcohol Myself Wasted Time
But I’m not here just to make records and money. I’m here to say something and to touch other people, sometimes in a cry of desperation: “Do you know this feeling?
KEITH RICHARDS

Desperate Feeling Money People Record Touch Yourself
Nobody wants to get old, but nobody wants to die young either.
KEITH RICHARDS

Death Old Young
There’s a demon in me, and he’s still around. Without the dope, we have a bit more of a chat these days.
KEITH RICHARDS

Day Demon Himself Myself
I’m free of hypochondria– although I’ve got everything else.
KEITH RICHARDS

Freedom Myself Sick
You know, the BBC had not been particularly generous in its deliverance of blues and esoteric kinds of music.
KEITH RICHARDS

Blue Deliver Kind Known Music Yourself
Some people think I’m a mythical genius, others think I’m a junkie madman.
KEITH RICHARDS

Genius Myself People Thinking
Guitar is easy, all it takes is 5 fingers, 6 strings and 1 a**hole.
KEITH RICHARDS

Guitar Instrument Musician
True friends. Hardest thing to find, but you never look for them – they found you ; you just grow into each other
KEITH RICHARDS

Each Other Finding Friendship True
You’ve got the sun, you’ve got the moon, and you’ve got the Rolling Stones.
KEITH RICHARDS

Moon Stone Sun Yourself
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

Blue Learning Monastery Realize Sing Thinking

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