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Keith Richards
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: December 18
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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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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.
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Rap - so many words, so little said.
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I look for ambiguity when I'm writing because life is ambiguous.
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If you say I'm great, thank you very much. But I know what I am. I could be better, man, you know?
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You don't find a style. A style finds you
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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.
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You see, to me, the art of music is listening to it, not playing it. The real art of it is hearing it.
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There's just certain styles of playing that you do play in your own way. Maybe it's in the way your fingers bend, for all I know. And so whenever you pick up the guitar it's not so much the sound of the instrument itself, it's like the ting that you add onto it-the attitude.
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The only things Mick and I disagree about is the band, the music and what we do.
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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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To a musician or songwriter, your canvas is silence.
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I'd play whenever I could get my hands on an electric guitar I was trying to pick up rock'n'roll riffs and electric blues - the latest Muddy Waters. I'd spend hours and hours on the same track, back again, and back again.
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Good music comes out of people playing together, knowing what they want to do and going for it. You have to sweat over it and bug it to death. You can't do it by pushing buttons and watching a TV screen.
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There's no substitute for live work to keep a band together.
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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've got the sun, you've got the moon, and you've got the Rolling Stones.
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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.
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Its called a playground, but its nearer to a battlefield. It can be brutal
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The Beatles were basically a vocal band.
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