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Songwriting's a weird game.

Keith Richards

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Keith Richards
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: December 18
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A painter's got a canvas. The writer's got reams of empty paper. A musician has silence.
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The only new technology that interests me is when it sort of throws me back soundwise. And I can think, Wow, that means I can go onstage and sound like Scotty Moore now and again!
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Music works in mysterious ways. Once it goes in you have no idea what it can do to you.
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Rap - so many words, so little said.
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There's a demon in me, and he's still around. Without the dope, we have a bit more of a chat these days.
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The electric guitar was vital in helping what I've achieved where would I be without it? Playing awfully quietly, for a start.
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When I started, all I wanted to do was play like Chuck (Berry)
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[joking about the length of the Rolling Stones' career] You have the sun, you have the moon, you have the air that you breathe - and you have the Rolling Stones!
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Guitar is easy, all it takes is 5 fingers, 6 strings and 1 a**hole
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