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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.’

Keith Richards

If you’re going to kick authority in the teeth, you might as well use both feet.
KEITH RICHARDS

Authority Yourself
Everybody’s got a different way of telling a story – and has different stories to tell.
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Different Story Talk Way
My life is full of broken halos.
KEITH RICHARDS

Break Heart Broken Instagram Captions Life Myself One Liner
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 might appear that nothing is happening, but that’s actually when it really happens.
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Calm Nature Silence Yourself
You know, the BBC had not been particularly generous in its deliverance of blues and esoteric kinds of music.
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Blue Deliver Kind Known Music Yourself
It’s great to be here. It’s great to be anywhere.
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Existence Gratitude Greatness
The public library is the great equaliser.
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Greatness Library One Liner Public
To a musician or songwriter, your canvas is silence.
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Canvas Musician Silence Yourself
I have no idea what the audience makes of me.
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Audience Ideas Myself
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
It’s a privilege just to wake up to a new day.
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Day Gratitude Wake Up
It’s one thing to play a Muddy Waters song. It’s another thing to play with him.
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Himself Play
You don’t find a style. A style finds you.
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Finding Style Yourself
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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Age Growth Imagination Yourself
Songwriting’s a weird game.
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Game One Liner Weird
Some people think I’m a mythical genius, others think I’m a junkie madman.
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Genius Myself People Thinking
I haven’t stopped smoking; anything.
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Myself Smoking Stop
I personally believe that most people that play an instrument would be able to write a few songs here and there. But they say, “I tried, I can’t do it” and give up and don’t try it again; they get too discouraged.
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Encouragement Give Up Instrument People Play Try Writing
If you’ve gotta think about being cool, you ain’t cool.
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Cool Thinking Yourself
Anything you throw yourself into, you better get yourself out of.
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Better Throw Yourself
I don’t regret nothing.
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Myself One Liner Regret
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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Drugs Give Up Myself Police Problem
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
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
I mean some doctor told me I had six months to live and I went to their funeral.
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Death Funny Live Myself
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

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