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I’m an unpure purist, something like that.

Keith Richards

I like it here in Austin. Anybody got a room?
KEITH RICHARDS

Country Myself Place Room
True friends. Hardest thing to find, but you never look for them – they found you ; you just grow into each other
KEITH RICHARDS

Each Other Finding Friendship True
Whatever side I take, I know well that I will be blamed.
KEITH RICHARDS

Blame Known Myself Side
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 mean, give me a guitar, give me a piano, give me a broom and string, I wouldn’t get bored anywhere.
KEITH RICHARDS

Boredom Guitar Myself
Some people think I’m a mythical genius, others think I’m a junkie madman.
KEITH RICHARDS

Genius Myself People Thinking
I’m free of hypochondria– although I’ve got everything else.
KEITH RICHARDS

Freedom Myself Sick
Fame has killed more very talented guys than drugs. Jimi Hendrix didn’t die of an overdose, he died of fame.
KEITH RICHARDS

Death Fame Kill Talent
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.
KEITH RICHARDS

Brain Experience Interesting Myself Quite Thinking
I’ve never turned blue in someone else’s bathroom. I consider that the height of bad manners.
KEITH RICHARDS

Bad Blue Manners Myself Privacy
A painter’s got a canvas. The writer’s got reams of empty paper. A musician has silence.
KEITH RICHARDS

Canvas Musician Painter Paper Silence
And then I think we realized, like any young guys, that blues are not learned in a monastery. You’ve got to go out there and get your heart broke and then come back and then you can sing the blues.
KEITH RICHARDS

Blue Learning Monastery Realize Sing Thinking
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.
KEITH RICHARDS

Bone Emotion Language Music Talk Word
Music is a necessity. After food, air, water and warmth, music is the next necessity of life.
KEITH RICHARDS

Life Music Necessary Need
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
I only get ill when I give up drugs. I don’t have a drug problem, I have a police problem.
KEITH RICHARDS

Drugs Give Up Myself Police Problem

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