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I only get ill when I give up drugs. I don’t have a drug problem, I have a police problem.

Keith Richards

Everyone talks about rock these days; the problem is they forget about the roll.
KEITH RICHARDS

Music Problem Roll Talk
It might appear that nothing is happening, but that’s actually when it really happens.
KEITH RICHARDS

Calm Nature Silence Yourself
Whatever side I take, I know well that I will be blamed.
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Blame Known Myself Side
Everybody’s got a different way of telling a story – and has different stories to tell.
KEITH RICHARDS

Different Story Talk Way
Guitar is easy, all it takes is 5 fingers, 6 strings and 1 a**hole.
KEITH RICHARDS

Guitar Instrument Musician
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.
KEITH RICHARDS

Comfortable Feeling Myself Time
We age not by holding on to youth, but by letting ourselves grow and embracing whatever youthful parts remain.
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Age Growth Ourselves Youth
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
Rock and roll ain’t nothing but jazz with a hard backbeat.
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Hard Music Rock Roll
If you’ve gotta think about being cool, you ain’t cool.
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Cool Thinking Yourself
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.
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Invention Life Machine Operation Rock
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 don’t wave a flag for anything. I’m a musician.
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Flag Musician Myself Wave
What is life but playing with time?
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Life Play Time
I’m an unpure purist, something like that.
KEITH RICHARDS

Myself Purity
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

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