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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

But I’ve always felt very comfortable on stage, even if I screw up. It always felt like a dog, this is my turf, piss around it. While I’m here, nothing else can happen. All I can do is screw up. Otherwise, have a good time.
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Comfortable Feeling Myself Time
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
The public library is the great equaliser.
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Greatness Library One Liner Public
I haven’t stopped smoking; anything.
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Myself Smoking Stop
My father. I snorted my father. He was cremated and I couldn’t resist grinding him up with a little bit of blow.
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Blow Father Myself Resistance
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 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
When I listen to what I did under the influence – 10 years of work – I don’t think it either enhanced or impaired me. It didn’t have that much to do with it.
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Influence Listening Myself Thinking Work
Music works in mysterious ways. Once it goes in you have no idea what it can do to you.
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Ideas Music Mysterious Work Yourself
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
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
You don’t find a style. A style finds you.
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Finding Style Yourself
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
Rock and roll ain’t nothing but jazz with a hard backbeat.
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Hard Music Rock Roll
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
You get onstage and make other people feel happy. Make them feel good.
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Feeling Happiness People Yourself
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
What’s the big deal about still working? Retirement age is sixty-five, and that’s at a normal job – and I ain’t there yet.
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Job Myself Normal Retirement Work
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
What is life but playing with time?
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Life Play Time
Why would you want to be anything else if you’re Mick Jagger?
KEITH RICHARDS

Change Fame Identity Yourself
To a musician or songwriter, your canvas is silence.
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Canvas Musician Silence Yourself
I’m not getting old I’m evolving.
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Evolution Myself Old
I never plan anything, which is probably the difference between Mick and myself. Mick needs to know what he’s gonna do tomorrow and I’m just happy to wake up to see who’s hanging around. Mick’s rock and I’m roll.
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Difference Known Myself Planning
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
My life is full of broken halos.
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Break Heart Broken Instagram Captions Life Myself One Liner
I mean some doctor told me I had six months to live and I went to their funeral.
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Death Funny Live 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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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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