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You see, to me, the art of music is listening to it, not playing it. The real art of it is hearing it.

Keith Richards

It’s one thing to play a Muddy Waters song. It’s another thing to play with him.
KEITH RICHARDS

Himself Play
I’m not getting old I’m evolving.
KEITH RICHARDS

Evolution Myself Old
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
You can’t accuse me of anything I haven’t already confessed to.
KEITH RICHARDS

Accuse Confession Yourself
We age not by holding on to youth, but by letting ourselves grow and embracing whatever youthful parts remain.
KEITH RICHARDS

Age Growth Ourselves Youth
Guitar is easy, all it takes is 5 fingers, 6 strings and 1 a**hole.
KEITH RICHARDS

Guitar Instrument Musician
I mean, give me a guitar, give me a piano, give me a broom and string, I wouldn’t get bored anywhere.
KEITH RICHARDS

Boredom Guitar Myself
When you’re 20, you can’t imagine being 30. When you’re 30, you can’t imagine being 40. When you’re 40, you can’t imagine being 100.
KEITH RICHARDS

Age Growth Imagination Yourself
If you’re going to kick authority in the teeth, you might as well use both feet.
KEITH RICHARDS

Authority Yourself
I was number 1 on the who’s likely to die list for 10 years. I was really disappointed when I fell off that list.
KEITH RICHARDS

Death Disappointment Myself
[John] Belushi was an extreme experience even by my standards.
KEITH RICHARDS

Experience Myself Standard
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.
KEITH RICHARDS

Affect Belong Growth Library Place Yourself
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
I like it here in Austin. Anybody got a room?
KEITH RICHARDS

Country Myself Place Room
If you are going to get wasted, then get wasted elegantly.
KEITH RICHARDS

Alcohol Wasted Yourself
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

You see, to me, the art of music is listening to it, not playing it. The real art of it is hearing it.

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