Songwriting’s a weird game.
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 read the Bible sometimes, but it bores me to death. I just want to know what other people find so bloody fascinating.
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I’ve got nothing against daylight. I don’t live totally nocturnally. Only when I feel like it. Which is most of the time.
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Everybody starts by imitating their heroes. For me it was Chuck Berry and Muddy Waters.
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One minute I’m standing at Ronnie Scott’s getting a standing ovation and the next minute, I’m on a marble slab
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I’m all for a quiet life. I just didn’t get one.
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Everyone talks about rock these days; the problem is they forget about the roll.
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To me, the main thing about living on this planet is to know who the hell you are and be real about it. That’s the reason I’m still alive.
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Retire? I can’t spell the word. I’d play in a wheelchair.
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When you’re 20, you can’t imagine being 30. When you’re 30, you can’t imagine being 40. When you’re 40, you can’t imagine being 100.
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It’s one thing to play a Muddy Waters song. It’s another thing to play with him.
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If you’re going to kick authority in the teeth, you might as well use both feet.
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I haven’t stopped smoking; anything.
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Music works in mysterious ways. Once it goes in you have no idea what it can do to you.
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Rock and roll ain’t nothing but jazz with a hard backbeat.
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Some things get better with age. Like me.
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