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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.

Keith Richards

Everybody starts by imitating their heroes. For me it was Chuck Berry and Muddy Waters.
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Heroes Imitation Myself Start
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
Anything you throw yourself into, you better get yourself out of.
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Better Throw Yourself
Poison’s not bad. It’s a matter of how much.
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Bad Poison Quantity
Nobody wants to get old, but nobody wants to die young either.
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Death Old Young
Rock and roll ain’t nothing but jazz with a hard backbeat.
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Hard Music Rock Roll
[John] Belushi was an extreme experience even by my standards.
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Experience Myself Standard
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
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.
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Death Disappointment Myself
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
Fame has killed more very talented guys than drugs. Jimi Hendrix didn’t die of an overdose, he died of fame.
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Death Fame Kill Talent
You get onstage and make other people feel happy. Make them feel good.
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Feeling Happiness People Yourself
A painter’s got a canvas. The writer’s got reams of empty paper. A musician has silence.
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Canvas Musician Painter Paper Silence
Some people think I’m a mythical genius, others think I’m a junkie madman.
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Genius Myself People Thinking
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
The rock’s easy, but the roll is another thing.
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Music Rock Roll

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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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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