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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
[John] Belushi was an extreme experience even by my standards.
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Experience Myself Standard
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
The rock’s easy, but the roll is another thing.
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Music Rock Roll
To make a rock’n’roll record, technology is the least important thing.
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Important Record Technology
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
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
You can’t accuse me of anything I haven’t already confessed to.
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Accuse Confession Yourself
The electric guitar was vital in helping what I’ve achieved where would I be without it? Playing awfully quietly, for a start.
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Electric Guitar Play Quiet Start
What is life but playing with time?
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Life Play Time
Yes, I’ve been trepanned. That’s quite an interesting experience, especially for my brain surgeon, who saw my thoughts flying around in my brain.
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Brain Experience Interesting Myself Quite Thinking
Some people think I’m a mythical genius, others think I’m a junkie madman.
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Genius Myself People Thinking
I was number 1 on the who’s likely to die list for 10 years. I was really disappointed when I fell off that list.
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Death Disappointment Myself
I mean some doctor told me I had six months to live and I went to their funeral.
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Death Funny Live Myself
You’ve got the sun, you’ve got the moon, and you’ve got the Rolling Stones.
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Moon Stone Sun Yourself
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

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