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If you stay up, you get the songs that everyone else misses because they're asleep.

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Keith Richards
Age: 80
Born: 1943
Born: December 18
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About myself I have no great illusions. I know what I am. I know what I'm good at. I know what I ain't. I'm always hoping to surprise myself. But I do have a love of music and I do love to communicate it, and that's the best I can do, really. And I can raise a good family, too.
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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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I like it here in Austin. Anybody got a room?
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Its called a playground, but its nearer to a battlefield. It can be brutal
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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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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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Well, I'm not putting death on the agenda. I don't want to see my old friend Lucifer just yet. He's the guy I'm gonna see, isn't it? I'm not going to the Other Place, let's face it.
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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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Some people think I'm a mythical genius, others think I'm a junkie madman.
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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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You don't find a style. A style finds you
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The public library is the great equaliser.
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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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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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Rock n Roll is music from the neck down.
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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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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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To a musician or songwriter, your canvas is silence.
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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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