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Fame has killed more very talented guys than drugs. Jimi Hendrix didn’t die of an overdose, he died of fame.

Keith Richards

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?
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Desperate Feeling Money People Record Touch Yourself
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 know, the BBC had not been particularly generous in its deliverance of blues and esoteric kinds of music.
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Blue Deliver Kind Known Music Yourself
One of the great things about songwrighting; it’s not an intellectual experience.
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Experience Greatness Intellectual Oneself
No broken hearts, no broken necks.
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Break Heart Broken Neck
I’m not getting old I’m evolving.
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Evolution Myself Old
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
Some things get better with age. Like me.
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Age Better Instagram Captions
Whatever side I take, I know well that I will be blamed.
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Blame Known Myself Side
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.
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Blue Learning Monastery Realize Sing Thinking
I occasionally borrow pot from my kids. They do a little weed occasionally. ‘Here, Dad’ – or more likely, ‘Dad, have you got any?’
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Children Father Occasion Yourself
Everybody thinks you reach a certain age and you’re a grownup, but it’s not true. Nobody grows up until the day they croak.
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Growth Reach Thinking True Yourself
It’s one thing to play a Muddy Waters song. It’s another thing to play with him.
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Himself Play
Retire? I can’t spell the word. I’d play in a wheelchair.
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Myself Play Retirement Spell Word
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.’
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Himself Musician Old Water Writing
I’m all for a quiet life. I just didn’t get one.
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Life Oneself Quiet
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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Alone End Myself People Stand
I’ve never turned blue in someone else’s bathroom. I consider that the height of bad manners.
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Bad Blue Manners Myself Privacy
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
I don’t regret nothing.
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Myself One Liner Regret
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
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
Yes, I’ve been trepanned. That’s quite an interesting experience, especially for my brain surgeon, who saw my thoughts flying around in my brain.
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Brain Experience Interesting Myself Quite Thinking
Anything you throw yourself into, you better get yourself out of.
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Better Throw Yourself
The Stones in a club is still the ultimate rush.
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Rush Stone Ultimate
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
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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Bone Emotion Language Music Talk Word

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