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Keith Richards

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.
KEITH RICHARDS

Ideas Job Myself Nurture Understand Word
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.
KEITH RICHARDS

Blue Learning Monastery Realize Sing Thinking
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

Job Myself Normal Retirement Work
I am not doing it just for the money or for you. I am doing it for me.
KEITH RICHARDS

Money Myself Yourself
The Stones in a club is still the ultimate rush.
KEITH RICHARDS

Rush Stone Ultimate
Rock and Roll: Music for the neck downwards.
KEITH RICHARDS

Music Neck Rock Role
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.
KEITH RICHARDS

Comfortable Feeling Myself Time
A painter’s got a canvas. The writer’s got reams of empty paper. A musician has silence.
KEITH RICHARDS

Canvas Musician Painter Paper Silence
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.
KEITH RICHARDS

Alive Known Live Planet Reason
I’ve never had a problem with drugs. I’ve had problems with the police.
KEITH RICHARDS

Drugs Myself Police Problem
I was in awe sometimes listening to Mick Taylor . Everything was there in his playing – the melodic touch, a beautiful sustain and a way of reading a song.
KEITH RICHARDS

Beautiful Listening Reading Song Touch
Preaching is tax free. Very little to do with God, a lot to do with money.
KEITH RICHARDS

God Money Preach Tax
We all have our own personal laboratories. Life is an experiment, and it’s just a matter of getting the alchemical or chemical combination right.
KEITH RICHARDS

Combination Experiment Life Personal Right
I’ve never had my hair cut by anybody, I do it all myself.
KEITH RICHARDS

Hairs Myself
You’ve got the sun, you’ve got the moon, and you’ve got the Rolling Stones.
KEITH RICHARDS

Moon Stone Sun Yourself
I never thought I was wasted, but I probably was.
KEITH RICHARDS

Alcohol Myself Wasted Time

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