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Songwriting’s a weird game.

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
You can’t accuse me of anything I haven’t already confessed to.
KEITH RICHARDS

Accuse Confession Yourself
A painter’s got a canvas. The writer’s got reams of empty paper. A musician has silence.
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Canvas Musician Painter Paper Silence
George Jones is a national treasure and should be treated accordingly. A unique style so often emulated even inadvertently.
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National Treasure Unique
I’ve never had a problem with drugs. I’ve had problems with the police.
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Drugs Myself Police Problem
It’s an addiction and addiction is something I should know something about.
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Addiction Known Myself
Yes, I’ve been trepanned. That’s quite an interesting experience, especially for my brain surgeon, who saw my thoughts flying around in my brain.
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Brain Experience Interesting Myself Quite Thinking
You get onstage and make other people feel happy. Make them feel good.
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Feeling Happiness People Yourself
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
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
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.
KEITH RICHARDS

Combination Experiment Life Personal Right
Music is a necessity. After food, air, water and warmth, music is the next necessity of life.
KEITH RICHARDS

Life Music Necessary Need
Guitar is easy, all it takes is 5 fingers, 6 strings and 1 a**hole.
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Guitar Instrument Musician
Music works in mysterious ways. Once it goes in you have no idea what it can do to you.
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Ideas Music Mysterious Work Yourself
Some people think I’m a mythical genius, others think I’m a junkie madman.
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Genius Myself People Thinking
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

Songwriting’s a weird game.

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