To a musician or songwriter, your canvas is silence.
KEITH RICHARDSI haven’t stopped smoking; anything.
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You get onstage and make other people feel happy. Make them feel good.
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To me, my biggest fear is getting a big head, and that is when I get the hammer. Because it’s very easy in this game to believe you’re something special.
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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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Let me be clear about this. I don’t have a drug problem. I have a police problem.
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We age not by holding on to youth, but by letting ourselves grow and embracing whatever youthful parts remain.
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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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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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Some things get better with age. Like me.
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You don’t find a style. A style finds you.
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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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Everybody starts by imitating their heroes. For me it was Chuck Berry and Muddy Waters.
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Preaching is tax free. Very little to do with God, a lot to do with money.
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The public library is the great equaliser.
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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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Music works in mysterious ways. Once it goes in you have no idea what it can do to you.
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