I consider my job [being a musician] is to have a little idea and nurture it and put it in some form that everybody else can understand and then sort of pass it on. It’s really a passing through. In other words, you receive and you transmit.
KEITH RICHARDSThe Stones in a club is still the ultimate rush.
More Keith Richards Quotes
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I have no idea what the audience makes of me.
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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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Songwriting’s a weird game.
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If you are going to get wasted, then get wasted elegantly.
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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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I only get ill when I give up drugs. I don’t have a drug problem, I have a police problem.
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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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Women are a beautiful complication, and I look forward to far more beauties and far more complications.
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I look for ambiguity when I’m writing because life is ambiguous.
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The public library is the great equaliser.
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Guitar is easy, all it takes is 5 fingers, 6 strings and 1 a**hole.
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The electric guitar was vital in helping what I’ve achieved where would I be without it? Playing awfully quietly, for a start.
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Fame has killed more very talented guys than drugs. Jimi Hendrix didn’t die of an overdose, he died of fame.
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Preaching is tax free. Very little to do with God, a lot to do with money.
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I never thought I was wasted, but I probably was.
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