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A painter’s got a canvas. The writer’s got reams of empty paper. A musician has silence.

Keith Richards

Everybody starts by imitating their heroes. For me it was Chuck Berry and Muddy Waters.
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Heroes Imitation Myself Start
What Muddy Waters did for us is what we should do for others. It’s the old thing, what you want written on your tombstone as a musician: ‘He passed it on.’
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Himself Musician Old Water Writing
To a musician or songwriter, your canvas is silence.
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Canvas Musician Silence Yourself
Some people think I’m a mythical genius, others think I’m a junkie madman.
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Genius Myself People Thinking
If you’re going to kick authority in the teeth, you might as well use both feet.
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Authority Yourself
I don’t trust doctors. It’s not to say there ain’t some good ones, but on a general level, no, I wouldn’t trust ’em at all.
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Doctor Goodness Myself Trust
You get onstage and make other people feel happy. Make them feel good.
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Feeling Happiness People Yourself
One of the great things about songwrighting; it’s not an intellectual experience.
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Experience Greatness Intellectual Oneself
The only things Mick and I disagree about is the band, the music and what we do.
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Disagreement Music Myself
Nobody wants to get old, but nobody wants to die young either.
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Death Old Young
But I’ve always felt very comfortable on stage, even if I screw up. It always felt like a dog, this is my turf, piss around it. While I’m here, nothing else can happen. All I can do is screw up. Otherwise, have a good time.
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Comfortable Feeling Myself Time
To make a rock’n’roll record, technology is the least important thing.
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Important Record Technology
Fame has killed more very talented guys than drugs. Jimi Hendrix didn’t die of an overdose, he died of fame.
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Death Fame Kill Talent
My life is full of broken halos.
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Break Heart Broken Instagram Captions Life Myself One Liner
I’m an unpure purist, something like that.
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Myself Purity
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
I mean some doctor told me I had six months to live and I went to their funeral.
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Death Funny Live Myself
The public library is the great equaliser.
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Greatness Library One Liner Public
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
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
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
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.
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Age Growth Imagination Yourself
Whatever side I take, I know well that I will be blamed.
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Blame Known Myself Side
Everyone talks about rock these days; the problem is they forget about the roll.
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Music Problem Roll Talk
You have the sun, you have the moon, you have the air that you breathe – and you have the Rolling Stones!
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Breathe Moon Sun Yourself
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’m free of hypochondria– although I’ve got everything else.
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Freedom Myself Sick

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