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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.

Keith Richards

To a musician or songwriter, your canvas is silence.
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Canvas Musician Silence Yourself
To me, life is a wild animal. You hope to deal with it when it leaps at you.
KEITH RICHARDS

Animal Life Wild Yourself
Music is a necessity. After food, air, water and warmth, music is the next necessity of life.
KEITH RICHARDS

Life Music Necessary Need
Music is a language that doesn’t speak in particular words. It speaks in emotions, and if it’s in the bones, it’s in the bones.
KEITH RICHARDS

Bone Emotion Language Music Talk Word
I have no idea what the audience makes of me.
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Audience Ideas Myself
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
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 achieved everything I wanted to achieve by being in the Rolling Stones and making records.
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Achievement Myself Record
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
I look for ambiguity when I’m writing because life is ambiguous.
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Life Myself 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
I’ve never turned blue in someone else’s bathroom. I consider that the height of bad manners.
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Bad Blue Manners Myself Privacy
Some people think I’m a mythical genius, others think I’m a junkie madman.
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Genius Myself People Thinking
Everyone talks about rock these days; the problem is they forget about the roll.
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Music Problem Roll Talk
I’m an unpure purist, something like that.
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Myself Purity
Songwriting’s a weird game.
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Game One Liner Weird

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