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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.

Keith Richards

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
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
I have no idea what the audience makes of me.
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Audience Ideas Myself
When you’re 20, you can’t imagine being 30. When you’re 30, you can’t imagine being 40. When you’re 40, you can’t imagine being 100.
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Age Growth Imagination Yourself
It’s one thing to play a Muddy Waters song. It’s another thing to play with him.
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Himself Play
I mean some doctor told me I had six months to live and I went to their funeral.
KEITH RICHARDS

Death Funny Live Myself
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.
KEITH RICHARDS

Bone Emotion Language Music Talk Word
I’ve never had my hair cut by anybody, I do it all myself.
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Hairs Myself
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
There’s a demon in me, and he’s still around. Without the dope, we have a bit more of a chat these days.
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Day Demon Himself Myself
I don’t trust doctors. It’s not to say there ain’t some good ones, but on a general level, no, I wouldn’t trust ’em at all.
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Doctor Goodness Myself Trust
The electric guitar was vital in helping what I’ve achieved where would I be without it? Playing awfully quietly, for a start.
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Electric Guitar Play Quiet Start
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
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.
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Ideas Job Myself Nurture Understand Word
I don’t wave a flag for anything. I’m a musician.
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Flag Musician Myself Wave
Rock and Roll: Music for the neck downwards.
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Music Neck Rock Role

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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