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

Keith Richards

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
Let me be clear about this. I don’t have a drug problem. I have a police problem.
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Drugs Police Problem
I don’t regret nothing.
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Myself One Liner Regret
You can’t accuse me of anything I haven’t already confessed to.
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Accuse Confession Yourself
If you stay up, you get the songs that everyone else misses because they’re asleep.
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Missing Sleep Song Stay 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
To me, the main thing about living on this planet is to know who the hell you are and be real about it. That’s the reason I’m still alive.
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Alive Known Live Planet Reason
I look for ambiguity when I’m writing because life is ambiguous.
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Life Myself Writing
My father. I snorted my father. He was cremated and I couldn’t resist grinding him up with a little bit of blow.
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Blow Father Myself Resistance
The Stones in a club is still the ultimate rush.
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Rush Stone Ultimate
I’ve never had a problem with drugs. I’ve had problems with the police.
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Drugs Myself Police Problem
We all have our own personal laboratories. Life is an experiment, and it’s just a matter of getting the alchemical or chemical combination right.
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Combination Experiment Life Personal Right
I’m an unpure purist, something like that.
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Myself Purity
Poison’s not bad. It’s a matter of how much.
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Bad Poison Quantity
I only get ill when I give up drugs. I don’t have a drug problem, I have a police problem.
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Drugs Give Up Myself Police Problem
It’s a privilege just to wake up to a new day.
KEITH RICHARDS

Day Gratitude Wake Up

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