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Keith Richards

If you’re cool, you don’t know nothing about it. It just is, or you ain’t.
KEITH RICHARDS

Cool Known Myself
Everybody thinks you reach a certain age and you’re a grownup, but it’s not true. Nobody grows up until the day they croak.
KEITH RICHARDS

Growth Reach Thinking True Yourself
If you’re going to kick authority in the teeth, you might as well use both feet.
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Authority Yourself
To make a rock’n’roll record, technology is the least important thing.
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Important Record Technology
The rock’s easy, but the roll is another thing.
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Music Rock Roll
I have no idea what the audience makes of me.
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Audience Ideas Myself
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
I’m an unpure purist, something like that.
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Myself Purity
I like it here in Austin. Anybody got a room?
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Country Myself Place Room
If you are going to get wasted, then get wasted elegantly.
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Alcohol Wasted Yourself
You don’t find a style. A style finds you.
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Finding Style Yourself
Everybody starts by imitating their heroes. For me it was Chuck Berry and Muddy Waters.
KEITH RICHARDS

Heroes Imitation Myself Start
Music works in mysterious ways. Once it goes in you have no idea what it can do to you.
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Ideas Music Mysterious Work Yourself
[John] Belushi was an extreme experience even by my standards.
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Experience Myself Standard
And then I think we realized, like any young guys, that blues are not learned in a monastery. You’ve got to go out there and get your heart broke and then come back and then you can sing the blues.
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Blue Learning Monastery Realize Sing Thinking
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

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