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If you stay up, you get the songs that everyone else misses because they’re asleep.

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
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
Some people think I’m a mythical genius, others think I’m a junkie madman.
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Genius Myself People Thinking
One of the great things about songwrighting; it’s not an intellectual experience.
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Experience Greatness Intellectual Oneself
Poison’s not bad. It’s a matter of how much.
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Bad Poison Quantity
To me, the main thing about living on this planet is to know who the hell you are and be real about it. That’s the reason I’m still alive.
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Alive Known Live Planet Reason
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 am not doing it just for the money or for you. I am doing it for me.
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Money Myself Yourself
The only things Mick and I disagree about is the band, the music and what we do.
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Disagreement Music Myself
It’s one thing to play a Muddy Waters song. It’s another thing to play with him.
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Himself Play
I achieved everything I wanted to achieve by being in the Rolling Stones and making records.
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Achievement Myself Record
You can’t accuse me of anything I haven’t already confessed to.
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Accuse Confession Yourself
I have no idea what the audience makes of me.
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Audience Ideas Myself
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
When you are growing up there are two institutional places that affect you most powerfully: the church, which belongs to God, and the public library, which belongs to you.
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Affect Belong Growth Library Place Yourself
To a musician or songwriter, your canvas is silence.
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Canvas Musician Silence Yourself

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