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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

I look for ambiguity when I’m writing because life is ambiguous.
KEITH RICHARDS

Life Myself Writing
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.
KEITH RICHARDS

Invention Life Machine Operation Rock
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
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.
KEITH RICHARDS

Alone Embarrassment Man Myself Old Secure Sleep
I don’t encourage anybody to do what I do, you know? Why should you? More for me!
KEITH RICHARDS

Body Encouragement Known Myself
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
If you’ve gotta think about being cool, you ain’t cool.
KEITH RICHARDS

Cool Thinking Yourself
One minute I’m standing at Ronnie Scott’s getting a standing ovation and the next minute, I’m on a marble slab
KEITH RICHARDS

Appreciation Myself Stand
The Stones in a club is still the ultimate rush.
KEITH RICHARDS

Rush Stone Ultimate
If you are going to get wasted, then get wasted elegantly.
KEITH RICHARDS

Alcohol Wasted 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.
KEITH RICHARDS

Ideas Job Myself Nurture Understand Word
You know, the BBC had not been particularly generous in its deliverance of blues and esoteric kinds of music.
KEITH RICHARDS

Blue Deliver Kind Known Music Yourself
What is life but playing with time?
KEITH RICHARDS

Life Play Time
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
Songwriting’s a weird game.
KEITH RICHARDS

Game One Liner Weird
If you’re going to kick authority in the teeth, you might as well use both feet.
KEITH RICHARDS

Authority Yourself

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.

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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.

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