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 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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It’s an addiction and addiction is something I should know something about.
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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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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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Some people think I’m a mythical genius, others think I’m a junkie madman.
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I was number 1 on the who’s likely to die list for 10 years. I was really disappointed when I fell off that list.
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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 don’t regret nothing.
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I’ve never had my hair cut by anybody, I do it all myself.
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To make a rock’n’roll record, technology is the least important thing.
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If you don’t know the blues there’s no point in picking up the guitar and playing rock and roll or any other form of popular music.
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I like it here in Austin. Anybody got a room?
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You don’t find a style. A style finds you.
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I am not doing it just for the money or for you. I am doing it for me.
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Nobody wants to get old, but nobody wants to die young either.
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