You see, to me, the art of music is listening to it, not playing it. The real art of it is hearing it.
KEITH RICHARDSThe Stones in a club is still the ultimate rush.
More Keith Richards Quotes
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Everybody’s got a different way of telling a story – and has different stories to tell.
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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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Nobody wants to get old, but nobody wants to die young either.
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What is life but playing with time?
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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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Everybody starts by imitating their heroes. For me it was Chuck Berry and Muddy Waters.
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I have no idea what the audience makes of me.
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The public library is the great equaliser.
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I look for ambiguity when I’m writing because life is ambiguous.
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But I’m not here just to make records and money. I’m here to say something and to touch other people, sometimes in a cry of desperation: “Do you know this feeling?
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Music is a language that doesn’t speak in particular words. It speaks in emotions, and if it’s in the bones, it’s in the bones.
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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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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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Whatever side I take, I know well that I will be blamed.
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To a musician or songwriter, your canvas is silence.
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