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Songwriting’s a weird game.

Keith Richards

You know, the BBC had not been particularly generous in its deliverance of blues and esoteric kinds of music.
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Blue Deliver Kind Known Music Yourself
But I’ve always felt very comfortable on stage, even if I screw up. It always felt like a dog, this is my turf, piss around it. While I’m here, nothing else can happen. All I can do is screw up. Otherwise, have a good time.
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Comfortable Feeling Myself Time
Whatever side I take, I know well that I will be blamed.
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Blame Known Myself Side
To a musician or songwriter, your canvas is silence.
KEITH RICHARDS

Canvas Musician Silence Yourself
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
Anything you throw yourself into, you better get yourself out of.
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Better Throw Yourself
I looked upon myself, in a sort of romantic and silly way, as like a laboratory.
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Labor Myself Romantic Way
You can’t accuse me of anything I haven’t already confessed to.
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Accuse Confession Yourself
I haven’t stopped smoking; anything.
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Myself Smoking Stop
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
It’s a privilege just to wake up to a new day.
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Day Gratitude Wake Up
Preaching is tax free. Very little to do with God, a lot to do with money.
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God Money Preach Tax
One minute I’m standing at Ronnie Scott’s getting a standing ovation and the next minute, I’m on a marble slab
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Appreciation Myself Stand
I have no idea what the audience makes of me.
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Audience Ideas Myself
Everybody starts by imitating their heroes. For me it was Chuck Berry and Muddy Waters.
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Heroes Imitation Myself Start
It’s one thing to play a Muddy Waters song. It’s another thing to play with him.
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Himself Play
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
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.’
KEITH RICHARDS

Himself Musician Old Water Writing
Everybody’s got a different way of telling a story – and has different stories to tell.
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Different Story Talk Way
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
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
If you say I’m great, thank you very much. But I know what I am. I could be better, man, you know?
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Better Greatness Man 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 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
I’m an unpure purist, something like that.
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Myself Purity
If you’re cool, you don’t know nothing about it. It just is, or you ain’t.
KEITH RICHARDS

Cool Known Myself

Songwriting’s a weird game.

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