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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

I look for ambiguity when I’m writing because life is ambiguous.
KEITH RICHARDS

Life Myself Writing
I occasionally borrow pot from my kids. They do a little weed occasionally. ‘Here, Dad’ – or more likely, ‘Dad, have you got any?’
KEITH RICHARDS

Children Father Occasion 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.
KEITH RICHARDS

Guitar Music Point Popular Yourself
And then I think we realized, like any young guys, that blues are not learned in a monastery. You’ve got to go out there and get your heart broke and then come back and then you can sing the blues.
KEITH RICHARDS

Blue Learning Monastery Realize Sing Thinking
Love has sold more songs than you’ve had hot dinners.
KEITH RICHARDS

Food Love Song Yourself
Music works in mysterious ways. Once it goes in you have no idea what it can do to you.
KEITH RICHARDS

Ideas Music Mysterious Work Yourself
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
But I’m not here just to make records and money. I’m here to say something and to touch other people, sometimes in a cry of desperation: “Do you know this feeling?
KEITH RICHARDS

Desperate Feeling Money People Record Touch Yourself
My father. I snorted my father. He was cremated and I couldn’t resist grinding him up with a little bit of blow.
KEITH RICHARDS

Blow Father Myself Resistance
The Stones in a club is still the ultimate rush.
KEITH RICHARDS

Rush Stone Ultimate
George Jones is a national treasure and should be treated accordingly. A unique style so often emulated even inadvertently.
KEITH RICHARDS

National Treasure Unique
I haven’t stopped smoking; anything.
KEITH RICHARDS

Myself Smoking Stop
Everybody starts by imitating their heroes. For me it was Chuck Berry and Muddy Waters.
KEITH RICHARDS

Heroes Imitation Myself Start
We all have our own personal laboratories. Life is an experiment, and it’s just a matter of getting the alchemical or chemical combination right.
KEITH RICHARDS

Combination Experiment Life Personal Right
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
You don’t find a style. A style finds you.
KEITH RICHARDS

Finding Style Yourself

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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