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Keith Richards

To a musician or songwriter, your canvas is silence.
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Canvas Musician Silence Yourself
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
Guitar is easy, all it takes is 5 fingers, 6 strings and 1 a**hole.
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Guitar Instrument Musician
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
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’m an unpure purist, something like that.
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Myself Purity
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
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
Songwriting’s a weird game.
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Game One Liner Weird
I have no idea what the audience makes of me.
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Audience Ideas Myself
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 cool, you don’t know nothing about it. It just is, or you ain’t.
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Cool Known Myself
The idea of retiring is like killing yourself. It’s almost like Hari Kari. I intend to live to a 100 and go down in history.
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History Ideas Myself Retirement
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.
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Combination Experiment Life Personal Right
You get onstage and make other people feel happy. Make them feel good.
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Feeling Happiness People 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

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