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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?

Keith Richards

I was in awe sometimes listening to Mick Taylor . Everything was there in his playing – the melodic touch, a beautiful sustain and a way of reading a song.
KEITH RICHARDS

Beautiful Listening Reading Song Touch
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 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 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
The rock’s easy, but the roll is another thing.
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Music Rock Roll
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
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.
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Guitar Music Point Popular Yourself
It’s an addiction and addiction is something I should know something about.
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Addiction Known Myself
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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Alone Embarrassment Man Myself Old Secure Sleep
To a musician or songwriter, your canvas is silence.
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Canvas Musician Silence Yourself
I’m all for a quiet life. I just didn’t get one.
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Life Oneself Quiet
The public library is the great equaliser.
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Greatness Library One Liner Public
I’m not getting old I’m evolving.
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Evolution Myself Old
I’ve never had my hair cut by anybody, I do it all myself.
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Hairs Myself
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
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 achieved everything I wanted to achieve by being in the Rolling Stones and making records.
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Achievement Myself Record
I’ve got nothing against daylight. I don’t live totally nocturnally. Only when I feel like it. Which is most of the time.
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Day Feeling Light Time
You get onstage and make other people feel happy. Make them feel good.
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Feeling Happiness People Yourself
Songwriting’s a weird game.
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Game One Liner Weird
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
I don’t wave a flag for anything. I’m a musician.
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Flag Musician Myself Wave
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
Women are a beautiful complication, and I look forward to far more beauties and far more complications.
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Beautiful Complication Myself Woman
If you’re cool, you don’t know nothing about it. It just is, or you ain’t.
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Cool Known Myself
It might appear that nothing is happening, but that’s actually when it really happens.
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Calm Nature Silence Yourself
It’s great to be here. It’s great to be anywhere.
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Existence Gratitude Greatness

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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