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It's great to be here. It's great to be anywhere.

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Keith Richards
Age: 80
Born: 1943
Born: December 18
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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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To me, life is a wild animal. You hope to deal with it when it leaps at you.
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The big rules of knife fighting are (a) do not try it at home, and (b) the whole point is never, ever use the blade. It is there to distract your opponent. While he stares at the gleaming steel, you kick his balls to kingdom come--he's all yours. Just a tip!
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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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You're always learning about this thing everytime you pick it up
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It might appear that nothing is happening, but that's actually when it really happens.
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The Beatles were basically a vocal band.
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You don't find a style. A style finds you
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There's no substitute for live work to keep a band together.
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Music is a necessity. After food, air, water and warmth, music is the next necessity of life.
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Before Elvis, everything was in black and white. Then came Elvis. Zoom, glorious Technicolor.
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Treat each guitar track-and each song-completely different. For example, if I'm using a certain amp and guitar on one track, I'll deliberately use something else for the next tune or overdub.
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To a musician or songwriter, your canvas is silence.
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I'm an unpure purist, something like that.
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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.'
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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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I like it here in Austin. Anybody got a room?
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I can sustain the impetus over the long tours we do is by feeding off the energy that we get back from an audience. That's my fuel. All i've got is this burning energy, especially when i've got a guitar in my hands.
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If you stay up, you get the songs that everyone else misses because they're asleep.
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You know, the BBC had not been particularly generous in its deliverance of blues and esoteric kinds of music.
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