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You know, the BBC had not been particularly generous in its deliverance of blues and esoteric kinds of music.

Keith Richards

I never thought I was wasted, but I probably was.
KEITH RICHARDS

Alcohol Myself Wasted Time
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
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
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
I look for ambiguity when I’m writing because life is ambiguous.
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Life Myself Writing
I’ve never had a problem with drugs. I’ve had problems with the police.
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Drugs Myself Police Problem
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
To me, life is a wild animal. You hope to deal with it when it leaps at you.
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Animal Life Wild Yourself
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
One of the great things about songwrighting; it’s not an intellectual experience.
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Experience Greatness Intellectual Oneself
Love has sold more songs than you’ve had hot dinners.
KEITH RICHARDS

Food Love Song Yourself
I achieved everything I wanted to achieve by being in the Rolling Stones and making records.
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Achievement Myself Record
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
If you don’t know the blues there’s no point in picking up the guitar and playing rock and roll or any other form of popular music.
KEITH RICHARDS

Guitar Music Point Popular Yourself
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
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.
KEITH RICHARDS

Comfortable Feeling Myself Time
If you’re going to kick authority in the teeth, you might as well use both feet.
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Authority Yourself
The Stones in a club is still the ultimate rush.
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Rush Stone Ultimate
You get onstage and make other people feel happy. Make them feel good.
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Feeling Happiness People Yourself
You’ve got the sun, you’ve got the moon, and you’ve got the Rolling Stones.
KEITH RICHARDS

Moon Stone Sun Yourself
I mean some doctor told me I had six months to live and I went to their funeral.
KEITH RICHARDS

Death Funny Live Myself
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.
KEITH RICHARDS

Big Fear Game Special Yourself
I read the Bible sometimes, but it bores me to death. I just want to know what other people find so bloody fascinating.
KEITH RICHARDS

Blood Fascination Myself People Reading
Poison’s not bad. It’s a matter of how much.
KEITH RICHARDS

Bad Poison Quantity
The public library is the great equaliser.
KEITH RICHARDS

Greatness Library One Liner Public
[John] Belushi was an extreme experience even by my standards.
KEITH RICHARDS

Experience Myself Standard
When I listen to what I did under the influence – 10 years of work – I don’t think it either enhanced or impaired me. It didn’t have that much to do with it.
KEITH RICHARDS

Influence Listening Myself Thinking Work

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