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Poison’s not bad. It’s a matter of how much.

Keith Richards

One of the great things about songwrighting; it’s not an intellectual experience.
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Experience Greatness Intellectual Oneself
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
If you’re going to kick authority in the teeth, you might as well use both feet.
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Authority Yourself
Some people think I’m a mythical genius, others think I’m a junkie madman.
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Genius Myself People Thinking
It’s an addiction and addiction is something I should know something about.
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Addiction Known Myself
If you are going to get wasted, then get wasted elegantly.
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Alcohol Wasted 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
What’s the big deal about still working? Retirement age is sixty-five, and that’s at a normal job – and I ain’t there yet.
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Job Myself Normal Retirement Work
The only things Mick and I disagree about is the band, the music and what we do.
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Disagreement Music Myself
I don’t wave a flag for anything. I’m a musician.
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Flag Musician Myself Wave
To a musician or songwriter, your canvas is silence.
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Canvas Musician Silence Yourself
A painter’s got a canvas. The writer’s got reams of empty paper. A musician has silence.
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Canvas Musician Painter Paper Silence
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
I’m free of hypochondria– although I’ve got everything else.
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Freedom Myself Sick
You’ve got the sun, you’ve got the moon, and you’ve got the Rolling Stones.
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Moon Stone Sun Yourself
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

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