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

Keith Richards

When I listen to what I did under the influence – 10 years of work – I don’t think it either enhanced or impaired me. It didn’t have that much to do with it.
KEITH RICHARDS

Influence Listening Myself Thinking Work
Guitar is easy, all it takes is 5 fingers, 6 strings and 1 a**hole.
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Guitar Instrument Musician
I have no idea what the audience makes of me.
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Audience Ideas 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
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
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
Everyone talks about rock these days; the problem is they forget about the roll.
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Music Problem Roll Talk
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
What Muddy Waters did for us is what we should do for others. It’s the old thing, what you want written on your tombstone as a musician: ‘He passed it on.’
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Himself Musician Old Water Writing
What is life but playing with time?
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Life Play Time
If you are going to get wasted, then get wasted elegantly.
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Alcohol Wasted Yourself
Love has sold more songs than you’ve had hot dinners.
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Food Love Song Yourself
One of the great things about songwrighting; it’s not an intellectual experience.
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Experience Greatness Intellectual Oneself
The rock’s easy, but the roll is another thing.
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Music Rock Roll
You don’t find a style. A style finds you.
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Finding Style 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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