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I’m an unpure purist, something like that.

Keith Richards

If you say I’m great, thank you very much. But I know what I am. I could be better, man, you know?
KEITH RICHARDS

Better Greatness Man Myself
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
I’m free of hypochondria– although I’ve got everything else.
KEITH RICHARDS

Freedom Myself Sick
Everybody’s got a different way of telling a story – and has different stories to tell.
KEITH RICHARDS

Different Story Talk Way
Anything you throw yourself into, you better get yourself out of.
KEITH RICHARDS

Better Throw 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.
KEITH RICHARDS

Job Myself Normal Retirement Work
If you’ve gotta think about being cool, you ain’t cool.
KEITH RICHARDS

Cool Thinking Yourself
Rock and roll ain’t nothing but jazz with a hard backbeat.
KEITH RICHARDS

Hard Music Rock Roll
I like it here in Austin. Anybody got a room?
KEITH RICHARDS

Country Myself Place Room
Rock and Roll: Music for the neck downwards.
KEITH RICHARDS

Music Neck Rock Role
The electric guitar was vital in helping what I’ve achieved where would I be without it? Playing awfully quietly, for a start.
KEITH RICHARDS

Electric Guitar Play Quiet Start
The Stones in a club is still the ultimate rush.
KEITH RICHARDS

Rush Stone Ultimate
You see, to me, the art of music is listening to it, not playing it. The real art of it is hearing it.
KEITH RICHARDS

Art Hear Musician Myself See
It’s one thing to play a Muddy Waters song. It’s another thing to play with him.
KEITH RICHARDS

Himself Play
You have the sun, you have the moon, you have the air that you breathe – and you have the Rolling Stones!
KEITH RICHARDS

Breathe Moon Sun Yourself
What Muddy Waters did for us is what we should do for others. It’s the old thing, what you want written on your tombstone as a musician: ‘He passed it on.’
KEITH RICHARDS

Himself Musician Old Water Writing

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