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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.

Keith Richards

This is the rock ‘n’ roll life, and you had to invent it as you went along. There was no textbook to say how you operate this machinery.
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Invention Life Machine Operation Rock
We age not by holding on to youth, but by letting ourselves grow and embracing whatever youthful parts remain.
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Age Growth Ourselves Youth
Whatever side I take, I know well that I will be blamed.
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Blame Known Myself Side
If you don’t know the blues there’s no point in picking up the guitar and playing rock and roll or any other form of popular music.
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Guitar Music Point Popular Yourself
To a musician or songwriter, your canvas is silence.
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Canvas Musician Silence Yourself
Some things get better with age. Like me.
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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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Blue Learning Monastery Realize Sing Thinking
I never thought I was wasted, but I probably was.
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Alcohol Myself Wasted Time
Poison’s not bad. It’s a matter of how much.
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Bad Poison Quantity
Let me be clear about this. I don’t have a drug problem. I have a police problem.
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Drugs Police Problem
Everybody starts by imitating their heroes. For me it was Chuck Berry and Muddy Waters.
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Heroes Imitation Myself Start
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
There’s a demon in me, and he’s still around. Without the dope, we have a bit more of a chat these days.
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Day Demon Himself Myself
But I’ve always felt very comfortable on stage, even if I screw up. It always felt like a dog, this is my turf, piss around it. While I’m here, nothing else can happen. All I can do is screw up. Otherwise, have a good time.
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Comfortable Feeling Myself Time
I personally believe that most people that play an instrument would be able to write a few songs here and there. But they say, “I tried, I can’t do it” and give up and don’t try it again; they get too discouraged.
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Encouragement Give Up Instrument People Play Try Writing
Women are a beautiful complication, and I look forward to far more beauties and far more complications.
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Beautiful Complication Myself Woman

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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