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The electric guitar was vital in helping what I’ve achieved where would I be without it? Playing awfully quietly, for a start.

Keith Richards

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
Poison’s not bad. It’s a matter of how much.
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Bad Poison Quantity
I’m free of hypochondria– although I’ve got everything else.
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Freedom Myself Sick
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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Himself Musician Old Water Writing
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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Boredom Guitar Myself
I look for ambiguity when I’m writing because life is ambiguous.
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Life Myself Writing
Everyone talks about rock these days; the problem is they forget about the roll.
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Music Problem Roll Talk
Everybody starts by imitating their heroes. For me it was Chuck Berry and Muddy Waters.
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Heroes Imitation Myself Start
I looked upon myself, in a sort of romantic and silly way, as like a laboratory.
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Labor Myself Romantic Way
I haven’t stopped smoking; anything.
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Myself Smoking Stop
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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Ideas Job Myself Nurture Understand Word
I’m all for a quiet life. I just didn’t get one.
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Life Oneself Quiet
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
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
I’m an unpure purist, something like that.
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Myself Purity
If you’ve gotta think about being cool, you ain’t cool.
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Cool Thinking Yourself

The electric guitar was vital in helping what I’ve achieved where would I be without it? Playing awfully quietly, for a start.

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