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I have no idea what the audience makes of me.

Keith Richards

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.
KEITH RICHARDS

Job Myself Normal Retirement Work
I never thought I was wasted, but I probably was.
KEITH RICHARDS

Alcohol Myself Wasted Time
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.
KEITH RICHARDS

Guitar Music Point Popular Yourself
Songwriting’s a weird game.
KEITH RICHARDS

Game One Liner Weird
You have the sun, you have the moon, you have the air that you breathe – and you have the Rolling Stones!
KEITH RICHARDS

Breathe Moon Sun Yourself
[John] Belushi was an extreme experience even by my standards.
KEITH RICHARDS

Experience Myself Standard
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.
KEITH RICHARDS

Blue Learning Monastery Realize Sing Thinking
My father. I snorted my father. He was cremated and I couldn’t resist grinding him up with a little bit of blow.
KEITH RICHARDS

Blow Father Myself Resistance
Music works in mysterious ways. Once it goes in you have no idea what it can do to you.
KEITH RICHARDS

Ideas Music Mysterious Work Yourself
Rock and roll ain’t nothing but jazz with a hard backbeat.
KEITH RICHARDS

Hard Music Rock Roll
I only get ill when I give up drugs. I don’t have a drug problem, I have a police problem.
KEITH RICHARDS

Drugs Give Up Myself Police Problem
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.
KEITH RICHARDS

Ideas Job Myself Nurture Understand Word
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?
KEITH RICHARDS

Desperate Feeling Money People Record Touch Yourself
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
You get onstage and make other people feel happy. Make them feel good.
KEITH RICHARDS

Feeling Happiness People Yourself
I don’t regret nothing.
KEITH RICHARDS

Myself One Liner Regret

I have no idea what the audience makes of me.

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