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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.

Keith Richards

One of the great things about songwrighting; it’s not an intellectual experience.
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Experience Greatness Intellectual Oneself
It’s a privilege just to wake up to a new day.
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Day Gratitude Wake Up
Poison’s not bad. It’s a matter of how much.
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Bad Poison Quantity
If you don’t know the blues there’s no point in picking up the guitar and playing rock and roll or any other form of popular music.
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Guitar Music Point Popular Yourself
I occasionally borrow pot from my kids. They do a little weed occasionally. ‘Here, Dad’ – or more likely, ‘Dad, have you got any?’
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Children Father Occasion Yourself
To a musician or songwriter, your canvas is silence.
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Canvas Musician Silence Yourself
If you’ve gotta think about being cool, you ain’t cool.
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Cool Thinking Yourself
Rock and roll ain’t nothing but jazz with a hard backbeat.
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Hard Music Rock Roll
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
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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Better Greatness Man Myself
Preaching is tax free. Very little to do with God, a lot to do with money.
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God Money Preach Tax
When you are growing up there are two institutional places that affect you most powerfully: the church, which belongs to God, and the public library, which belongs to you.
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Affect Belong Growth Library Place Yourself
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
The rock’s easy, but the roll is another thing.
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Music Rock Roll
Everybody thinks you reach a certain age and you’re a grownup, but it’s not true. Nobody grows up until the day they croak.
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Growth Reach Thinking True Yourself
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

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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