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Music works in mysterious ways. Once it goes in you have no idea what it can do to you.

Keith Richards

I look for ambiguity when I’m writing because life is ambiguous.
KEITH RICHARDS

Life Myself Writing
I have no idea what the audience makes of me.
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Audience Ideas Myself
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.
KEITH RICHARDS

Big Fear Game Special Yourself
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
To a musician or songwriter, your canvas is silence.
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Canvas Musician Silence Yourself
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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Himself Musician Old Water Writing
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
[John] Belushi was an extreme experience even by my standards.
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Experience Myself Standard
You know, the BBC had not been particularly generous in its deliverance of blues and esoteric kinds of music.
KEITH RICHARDS

Blue Deliver Kind Known Music Yourself
I’ve never turned blue in someone else’s bathroom. I consider that the height of bad manners.
KEITH RICHARDS

Bad Blue Manners Myself Privacy
To make a rock’n’roll record, technology is the least important thing.
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Important Record Technology
I like it here in Austin. Anybody got a room?
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Country Myself Place Room
To me, life is a wild animal. You hope to deal with it when it leaps at you.
KEITH RICHARDS

Animal Life Wild Yourself
It’s great to be here. It’s great to be anywhere.
KEITH RICHARDS

Existence Gratitude Greatness
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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Blood Fascination Myself People Reading
We age not by holding on to youth, but by letting ourselves grow and embracing whatever youthful parts remain.
KEITH RICHARDS

Age Growth Ourselves Youth

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