I don’t encourage anybody to do what I do, you know? Why should you? More for me!
KEITH RICHARDSI mean, give me a guitar, give me a piano, give me a broom and string, I wouldn’t get bored anywhere.
More Keith Richards Quotes
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If you stay up, you get the songs that everyone else misses because they’re asleep.
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To a musician or songwriter, your canvas is silence.
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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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One minute I’m standing at Ronnie Scott’s getting a standing ovation and the next minute, I’m on a marble slab
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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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Let me be clear about this. I don’t have a drug problem. I have a police problem.
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Rock and roll ain’t nothing but jazz with a hard backbeat.
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When you’re 20, you can’t imagine being 30. When you’re 30, you can’t imagine being 40. When you’re 40, you can’t imagine being 100.
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It’s one thing to play a Muddy Waters song. It’s another thing to play with him.
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There’s a demon in me, and he’s still around. Without the dope, we have a bit more of a chat these days.
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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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I’ve never had inner turmoil about all this. You find a lot of people these days who cannot stand to be alone. You could lock me up in solitary for weeks on end, and I’d keep myself amused.
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I’ve never turned blue in someone else’s bathroom. I consider that the height of bad manners.
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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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You can’t accuse me of anything I haven’t already confessed to.
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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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My life is full of broken halos.
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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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Love has sold more songs than you’ve had hot dinners.
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One of the great things about songwrighting; it’s not an intellectual experience.
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I’m all for a quiet life. I just didn’t get one.
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You get onstage and make other people feel happy. Make them feel good.
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Songwriting’s a weird game.
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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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You don’t find a style. A style finds you.
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If you’re cool, you don’t know nothing about it. It just is, or you ain’t.
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