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To a musician or songwriter, your canvas is silence.

Keith Richards

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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Electric Guitar Play Quiet Start
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
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
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
Love has sold more songs than you’ve had hot dinners.
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Food Love Song Yourself
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
Poison’s not bad. It’s a matter of how much.
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Bad Poison Quantity
I mean some doctor told me I had six months to live and I went to their funeral.
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Death Funny Live Myself
You see, to me, the art of music is listening to it, not playing it. The real art of it is hearing it.
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Art Hear Musician Myself See
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
I look for ambiguity when I’m writing because life is ambiguous.
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Life Myself Writing
I don’t encourage anybody to do what I do, you know? Why should you? More for me!
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Body Encouragement Known Myself
Some people think I’m a mythical genius, others think I’m a junkie madman.
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Genius Myself People Thinking
I never thought I was wasted, but I probably was.
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Alcohol Myself Wasted Time
If you’ve gotta think about being cool, you ain’t cool.
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Cool Thinking Yourself
If you stay up, you get the songs that everyone else misses because they’re asleep.
KEITH RICHARDS

Missing Sleep Song Stay Yourself

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