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Songwriting’s a weird game.

Keith Richards

We all have our own personal laboratories. Life is an experiment, and it’s just a matter of getting the alchemical or chemical combination right.
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Combination Experiment Life Personal Right
You see, to me, the art of music is listening to it, not playing it. The real art of it is hearing it.
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Art Hear Musician Myself See
If you stay up, you get the songs that everyone else misses because they’re asleep.
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Missing Sleep Song Stay Yourself
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.
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Job Myself Normal Retirement Work
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
I’ve never turned blue in someone else’s bathroom. I consider that the height of bad manners.
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Bad Blue Manners Myself Privacy
When you’re 20, you can’t imagine being 30. When you’re 30, you can’t imagine being 40. When you’re 40, you can’t imagine being 100.
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Age Growth Imagination Yourself
Everybody’s got a different way of telling a story – and has different stories to tell.
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Different Story Talk Way
You can’t accuse me of anything I haven’t already confessed to.
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Accuse Confession Yourself
If you are going to get wasted, then get wasted elegantly.
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Alcohol Wasted Yourself
I haven’t stopped smoking; anything.
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Myself Smoking Stop
If you’re going to kick authority in the teeth, you might as well use both feet.
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Authority Yourself
I occasionally borrow pot from my kids. They do a little weed occasionally. ‘Here, Dad’ – or more likely, ‘Dad, have you got any?’
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Children Father Occasion Yourself
To me, my biggest fear is getting a big head, and that is when I get the hammer. Because it’s very easy in this game to believe you’re something special.
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Big Fear Game Special Yourself
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.
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Blue Learning Monastery Realize Sing Thinking
I never plan anything, which is probably the difference between Mick and myself. Mick needs to know what he’s gonna do tomorrow and I’m just happy to wake up to see who’s hanging around. Mick’s rock and I’m roll.
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Difference Known Myself Planning

Songwriting’s a weird game.

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