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

Keith Richards

What Muddy Waters did for us is what we should do for others. It’s the old thing, what you want written on your tombstone as a musician: ‘He passed it on.’
KEITH RICHARDS

Himself Musician Old Water Writing
If you stay up, you get the songs that everyone else misses because they’re asleep.
KEITH RICHARDS

Missing Sleep Song Stay Yourself
Rock and Roll: Music for the neck downwards.
KEITH RICHARDS

Music Neck Rock Role
Guitar is easy, all it takes is 5 fingers, 6 strings and 1 a**hole.
KEITH RICHARDS

Guitar Instrument Musician
You see, to me, the art of music is listening to it, not playing it. The real art of it is hearing it.
KEITH RICHARDS

Art Hear Musician Myself See
If you’re cool, you don’t know nothing about it. It just is, or you ain’t.
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Cool Known Myself
I mean, give me a guitar, give me a piano, give me a broom and string, I wouldn’t get bored anywhere.
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Boredom Guitar Myself
Some people think I’m a mythical genius, others think I’m a junkie madman.
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Genius Myself People Thinking
I’m not getting old I’m evolving.
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Evolution Myself Old
Poison’s not bad. It’s a matter of how much.
KEITH RICHARDS

Bad Poison Quantity
I’m an unpure purist, something like that.
KEITH RICHARDS

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

Experience Greatness Intellectual Oneself
I’m all for a quiet life. I just didn’t get one.
KEITH RICHARDS

Life Oneself Quiet
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
Women are a beautiful complication, and I look forward to far more beauties and far more complications.
KEITH RICHARDS

Beautiful Complication Myself Woman
The electric guitar was vital in helping what I’ve achieved where would I be without it? Playing awfully quietly, for a start.
KEITH RICHARDS

Electric Guitar Play Quiet Start

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