To a musician or songwriter, your canvas is silence.
KEITH RICHARDSYou know, the BBC had not been particularly generous in its deliverance of blues and esoteric kinds of music.
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Music works in mysterious ways. Once it goes in you have no idea what it can do to you.
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I haven’t stopped smoking; anything.
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I don’t regret nothing.
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I’ve never had inner turmoil about all this. You find a lot of people these days who cannot stand to be alone. You could lock me up in solitary for weeks on end, and I’d keep myself amused.
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Music is a necessity. After food, air, water and warmth, music is the next necessity of life.
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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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My life is full of broken halos.
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Music is a language that doesn’t speak in particular words. It speaks in emotions, and if it’s in the bones, it’s in the bones.
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The public library is the great equaliser.
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Let me be clear about this. I don’t have a drug problem. I have a police problem.
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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.
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You know, the BBC had not been particularly generous in its deliverance of blues and esoteric kinds of music.
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You have the sun, you have the moon, you have the air that you breathe – and you have the Rolling Stones!
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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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Women are a beautiful complication, and I look forward to far more beauties and far more complications.
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