To a musician or songwriter, your canvas is silence.
KEITH RICHARDSTo me, my biggest fear is getting a big head, and that is when I get the hammer. Because it’s very easy in this game to believe you’re something special.
More Keith Richards Quotes
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Guitar is easy, all it takes is 5 fingers, 6 strings and 1 a**hole.
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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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I’ve never had my hair cut by anybody, I do it all myself.
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One of the great things about songwrighting; it’s not an intellectual experience.
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George Jones is a national treasure and should be treated accordingly. A unique style so often emulated even inadvertently.
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Nobody wants to get old, but nobody wants to die young either.
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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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I’ve got nothing against daylight. I don’t live totally nocturnally. Only when I feel like it. Which is most of the time.
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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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We age not by holding on to youth, but by letting ourselves grow and embracing whatever youthful parts remain.
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When you are growing up there are two institutional places that affect you most powerfully: the church, which belongs to God, and the public library, which belongs to you.
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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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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 haven’t stopped smoking; anything.
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The only things Mick and I disagree about is the band, the music and what we do.
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