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You get onstage and make other people feel happy. Make them feel good.

Keith Richards

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
If you say I’m great, thank you very much. But I know what I am. I could be better, man, you know?
KEITH RICHARDS

Better Greatness Man Myself
The idea of retiring is like killing yourself. It’s almost like Hari Kari. I intend to live to a 100 and go down in history.
KEITH RICHARDS

History Ideas Myself Retirement
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’ve never turned blue in someone else’s bathroom. I consider that the height of bad manners.
KEITH RICHARDS

Bad Blue Manners Myself Privacy
Everybody thinks you reach a certain age and you’re a grownup, but it’s not true. Nobody grows up until the day they croak.
KEITH RICHARDS

Growth Reach Thinking True Yourself
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
Love has sold more songs than you’ve had hot dinners.
KEITH RICHARDS

Food Love Song 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
Everybody’s got a different way of telling a story – and has different stories to tell.
KEITH RICHARDS

Different Story Talk Way
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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Game One Liner Weird
A painter’s got a canvas. The writer’s got reams of empty paper. A musician has silence.
KEITH RICHARDS

Canvas Musician Painter Paper Silence
I’ve got nothing against daylight. I don’t live totally nocturnally. Only when I feel like it. Which is most of the time.
KEITH RICHARDS

Day Feeling Light Time
Let me be clear about this. I don’t have a drug problem. I have a police problem.
KEITH RICHARDS

Drugs Police Problem
To a musician or songwriter, your canvas is silence.
KEITH RICHARDS

Canvas Musician Silence Yourself

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