It might appear that nothing is happening, but that’s actually when it really happens.
KEITH RICHARDSLove has sold more songs than you’ve had hot dinners.
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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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One of the great things about songwrighting; it’s not an intellectual experience.
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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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But I’m not here just to make records and money. I’m here to say something and to touch other people, sometimes in a cry of desperation: “Do you know this feeling?
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I don’t regret nothing.
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To a musician or songwriter, your canvas is silence.
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You see, to me, the art of music is listening to it, not playing it. The real art of it is hearing it.
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The rock’s easy, but the roll is another thing.
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Love has sold more songs than you’ve had hot dinners.
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You’ve got the sun, you’ve got the moon, and you’ve got the Rolling Stones.
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The public library is the great equaliser.
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I mean, give me a guitar, give me a piano, give me a broom and string, I wouldn’t get bored anywhere.
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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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If you’re cool, you don’t know nothing about it. It just is, or you ain’t.
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I’ve never turned blue in someone else’s bathroom. I consider that the height of bad manners.
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