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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.

Keith Richards

If you are going to get wasted, then get wasted elegantly.
KEITH RICHARDS

Alcohol Wasted Yourself
The Stones in a club is still the ultimate rush.
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Rush Stone Ultimate
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.
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Bone Emotion Language Music Talk Word
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 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
If you’ve gotta think about being cool, you ain’t cool.
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Cool Thinking Yourself
Poison’s not bad. It’s a matter of how much.
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Bad Poison Quantity
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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Desperate Feeling Money People Record Touch Yourself
Music is a necessity. After food, air, water and warmth, music is the next necessity of life.
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Life Music Necessary Need
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
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
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
[John] Belushi was an extreme experience even by my standards.
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Experience Myself Standard
Some people think I’m a mythical genius, others think I’m a junkie madman.
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Genius Myself People Thinking
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
We all have our own personal laboratories. Life is an experiment, and it’s just a matter of getting the alchemical or chemical combination right.
KEITH RICHARDS

Combination Experiment Life Personal Right

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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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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