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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

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
You know, the BBC had not been particularly generous in its deliverance of blues and esoteric kinds of music.
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Blue Deliver Kind Known Music Yourself
True friends. Hardest thing to find, but you never look for them – they found you ; you just grow into each other
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Each Other Finding Friendship True
Songwriting’s a weird game.
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Game One Liner Weird
Nobody wants to get old, but nobody wants to die young either.
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Death Old Young
I occasionally borrow pot from my kids. They do a little weed occasionally. ‘Here, Dad’ – or more likely, ‘Dad, have you got any?’
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Children Father Occasion Yourself
My life is full of broken halos.
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Break Heart Broken Instagram Captions Life Myself One Liner
I was in awe sometimes listening to Mick Taylor . Everything was there in his playing – the melodic touch, a beautiful sustain and a way of reading a song.
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Beautiful Listening Reading Song Touch
The public library is the great equaliser.
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Greatness Library One Liner Public
Women are a beautiful complication, and I look forward to far more beauties and far more complications.
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Beautiful Complication Myself Woman
I was number 1 on the who’s likely to die list for 10 years. I was really disappointed when I fell off that list.
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Death Disappointment Myself
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
I’m all for a quiet life. I just didn’t get one.
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Life Oneself Quiet
Retire? I can’t spell the word. I’d play in a wheelchair.
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Myself Play Retirement Spell Word
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.
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Alive Known Live Planet Reason
The rock’s easy, but the roll is another thing.
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Music Rock Roll
I look for ambiguity when I’m writing because life is ambiguous.
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Life Myself Writing
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
It’s a privilege just to wake up to a new day.
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Day Gratitude Wake Up
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
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’ve never had my hair cut by anybody, I do it all myself.
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Hairs Myself
You don’t find a style. A style finds you.
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Finding Style Yourself
If you’re cool, you don’t know nothing about it. It just is, or you ain’t.
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Cool Known Myself
When you are growing up there are two institutional places that affect you most powerfully: the church, which belongs to God, and the public library, which belongs to you.
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Affect Belong Growth Library Place Yourself

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