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I never thought I was wasted, but I probably was.

Keith Richards

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.
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Guitar Music Point Popular Yourself
If you say I’m great, thank you very much. But I know what I am. I could be better, man, you know?
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Better Greatness Man Myself
Guitar is easy, all it takes is 5 fingers, 6 strings and 1 a**hole.
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Guitar Instrument Musician
Rock and Roll: Music for the neck downwards.
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Music Neck Rock Role
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 see, to me, the art of music is listening to it, not playing it. The real art of it is hearing it.
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Art Hear Musician Myself See
If you stay up, you get the songs that everyone else misses because they’re asleep.
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Missing Sleep Song Stay Yourself
The only things Mick and I disagree about is the band, the music and what we do.
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Disagreement Music Myself
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.
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Bone Emotion Language Music Talk Word
It’s great to be here. It’s great to be anywhere.
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Existence Gratitude Greatness
Everybody starts by imitating their heroes. For me it was Chuck Berry and Muddy Waters.
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Heroes Imitation Myself Start
I have no idea what the audience makes of me.
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Audience Ideas Myself
Some things get better with age. Like me.
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Age Better Instagram Captions
Preaching is tax free. Very little to do with God, a lot to do with money.
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God Money Preach Tax
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
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

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