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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

To a musician or songwriter, your canvas is silence.
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Canvas Musician Silence Yourself
Everybody’s got a different way of telling a story – and has different stories to tell.
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Different Story Talk Way
The only things Mick and I disagree about is the band, the music and what we do.
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Disagreement Music Myself
I have no idea what the audience makes of me.
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Audience Ideas Myself
I never sleep alone. If there is no one to sleep next to, I’ll sleep next to a stuffed animal. It makes me feel secure and safe. It’s a little embarrassing to admit it; I’m an old man now. It’s important to me though.
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Alone Embarrassment Man Myself Old Secure Sleep
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
Whatever side I take, I know well that I will be blamed.
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Blame Known Myself Side
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
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
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.
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Age Growth Imagination Yourself
It’s a privilege just to wake up to a new day.
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Day Gratitude Wake Up
One minute I’m standing at Ronnie Scott’s getting a standing ovation and the next minute, I’m on a marble slab
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Appreciation Myself Stand
I haven’t stopped smoking; anything.
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Myself Smoking Stop
It might appear that nothing is happening, but that’s actually when it really happens.
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Calm Nature Silence 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
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

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