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What is life but playing with time?

Keith Richards

When I listen to what I did under the influence – 10 years of work – I don’t think it either enhanced or impaired me. It didn’t have that much to do with it.
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Influence Listening Myself Thinking Work
I’m an unpure purist, something like that.
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Myself Purity
It might appear that nothing is happening, but that’s actually when it really happens.
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Calm Nature Silence Yourself
If you stay up, you get the songs that everyone else misses because they’re asleep.
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Missing Sleep Song Stay Yourself
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
This is the rock ‘n’ roll life, and you had to invent it as you went along. There was no textbook to say how you operate this machinery.
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Invention Life Machine Operation Rock
The electric guitar was vital in helping what I’ve achieved where would I be without it? Playing awfully quietly, for a start.
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Electric Guitar Play Quiet Start
[John] Belushi was an extreme experience even by my standards.
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Experience Myself Standard
I never sleep alone. If there is no one to sleep next to, I’ll sleep next to a stuffed animal. It makes me feel secure and safe. It’s a little embarrassing to admit it; I’m an old man now. It’s important to me though.
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Alone Embarrassment Man Myself Old Secure Sleep
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.
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Growth Reach Thinking True Yourself
To a musician or songwriter, your canvas is silence.
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Canvas Musician Silence Yourself
George Jones is a national treasure and should be treated accordingly. A unique style so often emulated even inadvertently.
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National Treasure Unique
To make a rock’n’roll record, technology is the least important thing.
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Important Record Technology
I look for ambiguity when I’m writing because life is ambiguous.
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Life Myself Writing
Poison’s not bad. It’s a matter of how much.
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Bad Poison Quantity
I have no idea what the audience makes of me.
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Audience Ideas Myself

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