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I don't trust doctors. It's not to say there ain't some good ones, but on a general level, no, I wouldn't trust 'em at all.
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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.
Keith Richards The Rolling Stones
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It's an addiction... and addiction is something I should know something about.
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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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Everyone talks about rock these days; the problem is they forget about the roll.
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To me, as long as we've known each other, I've always thought Mick's most brilliant thing was that he could work in an area two foot square and give a very exciting performance.
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You didn't know whether Chuck Berry was black or white - it was not a concern.
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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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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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I look for ambiguity when I'm writing because life is ambiguous.
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I don't like to go into the studio with all the songs worked out and planned before hand ... you've got to give the band something to use its imagination on as well. That can make a very ordinary song come alive into something totally different ... the X-factor - so important in rock and roll - which is the feel.
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I achieved everything I wanted to achieve by being in the Rolling Stones and making records.
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There's no substitute for live work to keep a band together.
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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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If you stay up, you get the songs that everyone else misses because they're asleep.
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Songwriting's a weird game.
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The Beatles were basically a vocal band.
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Yes, I've been trepanned. That's quite an interesting experience, especially for my brain surgeon, who saw my thoughts flying around in my brain.
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The thing about being a songwriter, once you realize you are one, is that to provide ammo, you start to become an observer. ... You're constantly on the alert. That faculty gets trained in you over the years: observing people, how they react to one another, which in a way makes you weirdly distant. ... It's a little of Peeping Tom, being a song-writer.
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Give me a guitar, give me a piano, give me a broom and string; I wouldn't get bored anywhere.
Keith Richards The Rolling Stones
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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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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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Retire? I can't spell the word. I'd play in a wheelchair.
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Its called a playground, but its nearer to a battlefield. It can be brutal...
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