To a musician or songwriter, your canvas is silence.
KEITH RICHARDSA painter’s got a canvas. The writer’s got reams of empty paper. A musician has silence.
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I’ve never had a problem with drugs. I’ve had problems with the police.
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Music is a necessity. After food, air, water and warmth, music is the next necessity of life.
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But I’ve always felt very comfortable on stage, even if I screw up. It always felt like a dog, this is my turf, piss around it. While I’m here, nothing else can happen. All I can do is screw up. Otherwise, have a good time.
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If you stay up, you get the songs that everyone else misses because they’re asleep.
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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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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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Why would you want to be anything else if you’re Mick Jagger?
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The rock’s easy, but the roll is another thing.
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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?
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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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Music is a language that doesn’t speak in particular words. It speaks in emotions, and if it’s in the bones, it’s in the bones.
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If you are going to get wasted, then get wasted elegantly.
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It’s an addiction and addiction is something I should know something about.
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I haven’t stopped smoking; anything.
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I look for ambiguity when I’m writing because life is ambiguous.
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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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I never thought I was wasted, but I probably was.
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To me, life is a wild animal. You hope to deal with it when it leaps at you.
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If you’re cool, you don’t know nothing about it. It just is, or you ain’t.
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It’s one thing to play a Muddy Waters song. It’s another thing to play with him.
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I’m all for a quiet life. I just didn’t get one.
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Let me be clear about this. I don’t have a drug problem. I have a police problem.
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I never sleep alone. If there is no one to sleep next to, I’ll sleep next to a stuffed animal. It makes me feel secure and safe. It’s a little embarrassing to admit it; I’m an old man now. It’s important to me though.
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The only things Mick and I disagree about is the band, the music and what we do.
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A painter’s got a canvas. The writer’s got reams of empty paper. A musician has silence.
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Everyone talks about rock these days; the problem is they forget about the roll.
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