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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.

Keith Richards

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

Music Problem Roll Talk
Women are a beautiful complication, and I look forward to far more beauties and far more complications.
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Beautiful Complication Myself Woman
It’s one thing to play a Muddy Waters song. It’s another thing to play with him.
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Himself Play
The only things Mick and I disagree about is the band, the music and what we do.
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Disagreement Music Myself
To a musician or songwriter, your canvas is silence.
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Canvas Musician Silence Yourself
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.
KEITH RICHARDS

Guitar Music Point Popular Yourself
I only get ill when I give up drugs. I don’t have a drug problem, I have a police problem.
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Drugs Give Up Myself Police Problem
When I listen to what I did under the influence – 10 years of work – I don’t think it either enhanced or impaired me. It didn’t have that much to do with it.
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Influence Listening Myself Thinking Work
You know, the BBC had not been particularly generous in its deliverance of blues and esoteric kinds of music.
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Blue Deliver Kind Known Music Yourself
To make a rock’n’roll record, technology is the least important thing.
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Important Record Technology
I’ve never had my hair cut by anybody, I do it all myself.
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Hairs Myself
The public library is the great equaliser.
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Greatness Library One Liner Public
No broken hearts, no broken necks.
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Break Heart Broken Neck
It might appear that nothing is happening, but that’s actually when it really happens.
KEITH RICHARDS

Calm Nature Silence Yourself
Why would you want to be anything else if you’re Mick Jagger?
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Change Fame Identity Yourself
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

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