Quotes: I'm Just An Antenna

Keith Richards' thoughts on songwriting could be applied to painting or design.

I look for ambiguity when I'm writing because life is ambiguous. I have no idea what the audience makes of me. Sometimes I don't know whether I'm going under their heads or over their heads. Writing songs is a peculiar practice anyway. I never feel I write them, I'm just an antenna and the songs are already zooming through the room, and I hope to pick up something.

From Keith Richards in Raygun 22, Dec/Jan 1995.

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