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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

You know, the BBC had not been particularly generous in its deliverance of blues and esoteric kinds of music.
KEITH RICHARDS

Blue Deliver Kind Known Music Yourself
You don’t find a style. A style finds you.
KEITH RICHARDS

Finding Style Yourself
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’re 20, you can’t imagine being 30. When you’re 30, you can’t imagine being 40. When you’re 40, you can’t imagine being 100.
KEITH RICHARDS

Age Growth Imagination Yourself
If you’ve gotta think about being cool, you ain’t cool.
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Cool Thinking Yourself
A painter’s got a canvas. The writer’s got reams of empty paper. A musician has silence.
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Canvas Musician Painter Paper Silence
I haven’t stopped smoking; anything.
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Myself Smoking Stop
Music is a necessity. After food, air, water and warmth, music is the next necessity of life.
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Life Music Necessary Need
I never plan anything, which is probably the difference between Mick and myself. Mick needs to know what he’s gonna do tomorrow and I’m just happy to wake up to see who’s hanging around. Mick’s rock and I’m roll.
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Difference Known Myself Planning
Everybody starts by imitating their heroes. For me it was Chuck Berry and Muddy Waters.
KEITH RICHARDS

Heroes Imitation Myself Start
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
It’s a privilege just to wake up to a new day.
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Day Gratitude Wake Up
I never thought I was wasted, but I probably was.
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Alcohol Myself Wasted Time
I’m free of hypochondria– although I’ve got everything else.
KEITH RICHARDS

Freedom Myself Sick
I’m not getting old I’m evolving.
KEITH RICHARDS

Evolution Myself Old
If you’re going to kick authority in the teeth, you might as well use both feet.
KEITH RICHARDS

Authority Yourself

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