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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

Some people think I’m a mythical genius, others think I’m a junkie madman.
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Genius Myself People Thinking
But I’m not here just to make records and money. I’m here to say something and to touch other people, sometimes in a cry of desperation: “Do you know this feeling?
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Desperate Feeling Money People Record Touch 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
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
The public library is the great equaliser.
KEITH RICHARDS

Greatness Library One Liner Public
I’ve never had my hair cut by anybody, I do it all myself.
KEITH RICHARDS

Hairs Myself
I like it here in Austin. Anybody got a room?
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Country Myself Place Room
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.
KEITH RICHARDS

Job Myself Normal Retirement Work
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 don’t wave a flag for anything. I’m a musician.
KEITH RICHARDS

Flag Musician Myself Wave
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
Songwriting’s a weird game.
KEITH RICHARDS

Game One Liner Weird
I am not doing it just for the money or for you. I am doing it for me.
KEITH RICHARDS

Money Myself Yourself
I’m all for a quiet life. I just didn’t get one.
KEITH RICHARDS

Life Oneself Quiet
I achieved everything I wanted to achieve by being in the Rolling Stones and making records.
KEITH RICHARDS

Achievement Myself Record
I’ve never had inner turmoil about all this. You find a lot of people these days who cannot stand to be alone. You could lock me up in solitary for weeks on end, and I’d keep myself amused.
KEITH RICHARDS

Alone End Myself People Stand

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