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A painter’s got a canvas. The writer’s got reams of empty paper. A musician has silence.

Keith Richards

Everybody thinks you reach a certain age and you’re a grownup, but it’s not true. Nobody grows up until the day they croak.
KEITH RICHARDS

Growth Reach Thinking True Yourself
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.
KEITH RICHARDS

Brain Experience Interesting Myself Quite Thinking
This is the rock ‘n’ roll life, and you had to invent it as you went along. There was no textbook to say how you operate this machinery.
KEITH RICHARDS

Invention Life Machine Operation Rock
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
When you are growing up there are two institutional places that affect you most powerfully: the church, which belongs to God, and the public library, which belongs to you.
KEITH RICHARDS

Affect Belong Growth Library Place Yourself
I achieved everything I wanted to achieve by being in the Rolling Stones and making records.
KEITH RICHARDS

Achievement Myself Record
One minute I’m standing at Ronnie Scott’s getting a standing ovation and the next minute, I’m on a marble slab
KEITH RICHARDS

Appreciation Myself Stand
I’m all for a quiet life. I just didn’t get one.
KEITH RICHARDS

Life Oneself Quiet
If you’ve gotta think about being cool, you ain’t cool.
KEITH RICHARDS

Cool Thinking Yourself
If you’re cool, you don’t know nothing about it. It just is, or you ain’t.
KEITH RICHARDS

Cool Known Myself
To me, life is a wild animal. You hope to deal with it when it leaps at you.
KEITH RICHARDS

Animal Life Wild Yourself
I haven’t stopped smoking; anything.
KEITH RICHARDS

Myself Smoking Stop
You see, to me, the art of music is listening to it, not playing it. The real art of it is hearing it.
KEITH RICHARDS

Art Hear Musician Myself See
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
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
If you’re going to kick authority in the teeth, you might as well use both feet.
KEITH RICHARDS

Authority Yourself

A painter’s got a canvas. The writer’s got reams of empty paper. A musician has silence.

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