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I like it here in Austin. Anybody got a room?

Keith Richards

I’ve got nothing against daylight. I don’t live totally nocturnally. Only when I feel like it. Which is most of the time.
KEITH RICHARDS

Day Feeling Light Time
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
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.
KEITH RICHARDS

Big Fear Game Special Yourself
It’s an addiction and addiction is something I should know something about.
KEITH RICHARDS

Addiction Known Myself
You know, the BBC had not been particularly generous in its deliverance of blues and esoteric kinds of music.
KEITH RICHARDS

Blue Deliver Kind Known Music Yourself
I have no idea what the audience makes of me.
KEITH RICHARDS

Audience Ideas Myself
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

Art Hear Musician Myself See
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
Music is a necessity. After food, air, water and warmth, music is the next necessity of life.
KEITH RICHARDS

Life Music Necessary Need
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.
KEITH RICHARDS

Influence Listening Myself Thinking Work
I’ve never turned blue in someone else’s bathroom. I consider that the height of bad manners.
KEITH RICHARDS

Bad Blue Manners Myself Privacy
When you’re 20, you can’t imagine being 30. When you’re 30, you can’t imagine being 40. When you’re 40, you can’t imagine being 100.
KEITH RICHARDS

Age Growth Imagination Yourself
This is the rock ‘n’ roll life, and you had to invent it as you went along. There was no textbook to say how you operate this machinery.
KEITH RICHARDS

Invention Life Machine Operation Rock
Everybody’s got a different way of telling a story – and has different stories to tell.
KEITH RICHARDS

Different Story Talk Way
I looked upon myself, in a sort of romantic and silly way, as like a laboratory.
KEITH RICHARDS

Labor Myself Romantic Way
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.’
KEITH RICHARDS

Himself Musician Old Water Writing

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