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You get onstage and make other people feel happy. Make them feel good.

Keith Richards

One of the great things about songwrighting; it’s not an intellectual experience.
KEITH RICHARDS

Experience Greatness Intellectual Oneself
I’ve never had inner turmoil about all this. You find a lot of people these days who cannot stand to be alone. You could lock me up in solitary for weeks on end, and I’d keep myself amused.
KEITH RICHARDS

Alone End Myself People Stand
If you’re going to kick authority in the teeth, you might as well use both feet.
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Authority 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
True friends. Hardest thing to find, but you never look for them – they found you ; you just grow into each other
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Each Other Finding Friendship True
Rock and roll ain’t nothing but jazz with a hard backbeat.
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Hard Music Rock Roll
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
You get onstage and make other people feel happy. Make them feel good.
KEITH RICHARDS

Feeling Happiness People Yourself
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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Bone Emotion Language Music Talk Word
The idea of retiring is like killing yourself. It’s almost like Hari Kari. I intend to live to a 100 and go down in history.
KEITH RICHARDS

History Ideas Myself Retirement
If you stay up, you get the songs that everyone else misses because they’re asleep.
KEITH RICHARDS

Missing Sleep Song Stay Yourself
You’ve got the sun, you’ve got the moon, and you’ve got the Rolling Stones.
KEITH RICHARDS

Moon Stone Sun Yourself
Music works in mysterious ways. Once it goes in you have no idea what it can do to you.
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Ideas Music Mysterious Work Yourself
Songwriting’s a weird game.
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Game One Liner Weird
I’m an unpure purist, something like that.
KEITH RICHARDS

Myself Purity
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

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