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To a musician or songwriter, your canvas is silence.

Keith Richards

I’ve never turned blue in someone else’s bathroom. I consider that the height of bad manners.
KEITH RICHARDS

Bad Blue Manners Myself Privacy
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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Bone Emotion Language Music Talk Word
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.
KEITH RICHARDS

Encouragement Give Up Instrument People Play Try Writing
Yes, I’ve been trepanned. That’s quite an interesting experience, especially for my brain surgeon, who saw my thoughts flying around in my brain.
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Brain Experience Interesting Myself Quite Thinking
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
Some people think I’m a mythical genius, others think I’m a junkie madman.
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Genius Myself People Thinking
To a musician or songwriter, your canvas is silence.
KEITH RICHARDS

Canvas Musician Silence Yourself
But I’m not here just to make records and money. I’m here to say something and to touch other people, sometimes in a cry of desperation: “Do you know this feeling?
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Desperate Feeling Money People Record Touch Yourself
I’ve never had my hair cut by anybody, I do it all myself.
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Hairs Myself
To me, life is a wild animal. You hope to deal with it when it leaps at you.
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Animal Life Wild Yourself
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
Everyone talks about rock these days; the problem is they forget about the roll.
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Music Problem Roll Talk
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 haven’t stopped smoking; anything.
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Myself Smoking Stop
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
Love has sold more songs than you’ve had hot dinners.
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Food Love Song Yourself

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