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My father. I snorted my father. He was cremated and I couldn’t resist grinding him up with a little bit of blow.

Keith Richards

It’s one thing to play a Muddy Waters song. It’s another thing to play with him.
KEITH RICHARDS

Himself Play
If you stay up, you get the songs that everyone else misses because they’re asleep.
KEITH RICHARDS

Missing Sleep Song Stay Yourself
A painter’s got a canvas. The writer’s got reams of empty paper. A musician has silence.
KEITH RICHARDS

Canvas Musician Painter Paper Silence
If you’ve gotta think about being cool, you ain’t cool.
KEITH RICHARDS

Cool Thinking Yourself
What’s the big deal about still working? Retirement age is sixty-five, and that’s at a normal job – and I ain’t there yet.
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Job Myself Normal Retirement Work
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.
KEITH RICHARDS

Encouragement Give Up Instrument People Play Try Writing
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.
KEITH RICHARDS

Alive Known Live Planet Reason
To make a rock’n’roll record, technology is the least important thing.
KEITH RICHARDS

Important Record Technology
Women are a beautiful complication, and I look forward to far more beauties and far more complications.
KEITH RICHARDS

Beautiful Complication Myself Woman
We all have our own personal laboratories. Life is an experiment, and it’s just a matter of getting the alchemical or chemical combination right.
KEITH RICHARDS

Combination Experiment Life Personal Right
Let me be clear about this. I don’t have a drug problem. I have a police problem.
KEITH RICHARDS

Drugs Police Problem
There’s a demon in me, and he’s still around. Without the dope, we have a bit more of a chat these days.
KEITH RICHARDS

Day Demon Himself Myself
You get onstage and make other people feel happy. Make them feel good.
KEITH RICHARDS

Feeling Happiness People Yourself
Everyone talks about rock these days; the problem is they forget about the roll.
KEITH RICHARDS

Music Problem Roll Talk
I haven’t stopped smoking; anything.
KEITH RICHARDS

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

Authority Yourself

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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