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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.

Keith Richards

To a musician or songwriter, your canvas is silence.
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Canvas Musician Silence Yourself
You get onstage and make other people feel happy. Make them feel good.
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Feeling Happiness People Yourself
I have no idea what the audience makes of me.
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Audience Ideas Myself
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
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
If you’re going to kick authority in the teeth, you might as well use both feet.
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Authority Yourself
I mean, give me a guitar, give me a piano, give me a broom and string, I wouldn’t get bored anywhere.
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Boredom Guitar Myself
To me, my biggest fear is getting a big head, and that is when I get the hammer. Because it’s very easy in this game to believe you’re something special.
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Big Fear Game Special Yourself
If you’ve gotta think about being cool, you ain’t cool.
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Cool Thinking Yourself
Some people think I’m a mythical genius, others think I’m a junkie madman.
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Genius Myself People 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
Poison’s not bad. It’s a matter of how much.
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Bad Poison Quantity
The rock’s easy, but the roll is another thing.
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Music Rock Roll
I’m free of hypochondria– although I’ve got everything else.
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Freedom Myself Sick
I looked upon myself, in a sort of romantic and silly way, as like a laboratory.
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Labor Myself Romantic Way
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

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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