And then I think we realized, like any young guys, that blues are not learned in a monastery. You’ve got to go out there and get your heart broke and then come back and then you can sing the blues.
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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I’m all for a quiet life. I just didn’t get one.
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Retire? I can’t spell the word. I’d play in a wheelchair.
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Some things get better with age. Like me.
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I look for ambiguity when I’m writing because life is ambiguous.
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If you stay up, you get the songs that everyone else misses because they’re asleep.
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Everybody thinks you reach a certain age and you’re a grownup, but it’s not true. Nobody grows up until the day they croak.
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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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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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The rock’s easy, but the roll is another thing.
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I don’t encourage anybody to do what I do, you know? Why should you? More for me!
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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.
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Songwriting’s a weird game.
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[John] Belushi was an extreme experience even by my standards.
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Rock and roll ain’t nothing but jazz with a hard backbeat.
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I never sleep alone. If there is no one to sleep next to, I’ll sleep next to a stuffed animal. It makes me feel secure and safe. It’s a little embarrassing to admit it; I’m an old man now. It’s important to me though.
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