A painter’s got a canvas. The writer’s got reams of empty paper. A musician has silence.
KEITH RICHARDSWhat 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.’
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I like it here in Austin. Anybody got a room?
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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.
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I only get ill when I give up drugs. I don’t have a drug problem, I have a police problem.
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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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If you stay up, you get the songs that everyone else misses because they’re asleep.
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I’m all for a quiet life. I just didn’t get one.
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I don’t trust doctors. It’s not to say there ain’t some good ones, but on a general level, no, I wouldn’t trust ’em at all.
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I never thought I was wasted, but I probably was.
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Retire? I can’t spell the word. I’d play in a wheelchair.
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No broken hearts, no broken necks.
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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.’
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Preaching is tax free. Very little to do with God, a lot to do with money.
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I’m not getting old I’m evolving.
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I’ve never turned blue in someone else’s bathroom. I consider that the height of bad manners.
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You’ve got the sun, you’ve got the moon, and you’ve got the Rolling Stones.
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