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I mean, give me a guitar, give me a piano, give me a broom and string, I wouldn’t get bored anywhere.

Keith Richards

One of the great things about songwrighting; it’s not an intellectual experience.
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Experience Greatness Intellectual Oneself
To make a rock’n’roll record, technology is the least important thing.
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Important Record Technology
Poison’s not bad. It’s a matter of how much.
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Bad Poison Quantity
My life is full of broken halos.
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Break Heart Broken Instagram Captions Life Myself One Liner
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
Some people think I’m a mythical genius, others think I’m a junkie madman.
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Genius Myself People Thinking
You don’t find a style. A style finds you.
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Finding Style 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
You can’t accuse me of anything I haven’t already confessed to.
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Accuse Confession Yourself
To a musician or songwriter, your canvas is silence.
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Canvas Musician Silence Yourself
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.
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Blue Learning Monastery Realize Sing Thinking
If you are going to get wasted, then get wasted elegantly.
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Alcohol Wasted Yourself
I never plan anything, which is probably the difference between Mick and myself. Mick needs to know what he’s gonna do tomorrow and I’m just happy to wake up to see who’s hanging around. Mick’s rock and I’m roll.
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Difference Known Myself Planning
I’m free of hypochondria– although I’ve got everything else.
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Freedom Myself Sick
The public library is the great equaliser.
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Greatness Library One Liner Public
Everybody’s got a different way of telling a story – and has different stories to tell.
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Different Story Talk Way
To me, my biggest fear is getting a big head, and that is when I get the hammer. Because it’s very easy in this game to believe you’re something special.
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Big Fear Game Special Yourself
It might appear that nothing is happening, but that’s actually when it really happens.
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Calm Nature Silence Yourself
Let me be clear about this. I don’t have a drug problem. I have a police problem.
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Drugs Police Problem
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
It’s great to be here. It’s great to be anywhere.
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Existence Gratitude Greatness
When I listen to what I did under the influence – 10 years of work – I don’t think it either enhanced or impaired me. It didn’t have that much to do with it.
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Influence Listening Myself Thinking Work
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
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.
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Alone End Myself People Stand
If you’ve gotta think about being cool, you ain’t cool.
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Cool Thinking Yourself
My father. I snorted my father. He was cremated and I couldn’t resist grinding him up with a little bit of blow.
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Blow Father Myself Resistance
You have the sun, you have the moon, you have the air that you breathe – and you have the Rolling Stones!
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Breathe Moon Sun 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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