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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

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
If you say I’m great, thank you very much. But I know what I am. I could be better, man, you know?
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Better Greatness Man Myself
I never thought I was wasted, but I probably was.
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Alcohol Myself Wasted Time
If you’re going to kick authority in the teeth, you might as well use both feet.
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Authority Yourself
You get onstage and make other people feel happy. Make them feel good.
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Feeling Happiness People Yourself
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.
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Guitar Music Point Popular Yourself
No broken hearts, no broken necks.
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Break Heart Broken Neck
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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Blue Learning Monastery Realize Sing Thinking
I have no idea what the audience makes of me.
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Audience Ideas Myself
I am not doing it just for the money or for you. I am doing it for me.
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Money Myself Yourself
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
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.
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Job Myself Normal Retirement Work
Rock and Roll: Music for the neck downwards.
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Music Neck Rock Role
It might appear that nothing is happening, but that’s actually when it really happens.
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Calm Nature Silence Yourself
I’m an unpure purist, something like that.
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Myself Purity
[John] Belushi was an extreme experience even by my standards.
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Experience Myself Standard

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.

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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.

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