Songwriting’s a weird game.
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.
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True friends. Hardest thing to find, but you never look for them – they found you ; you just grow into each other
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I looked upon myself, in a sort of romantic and silly way, as like a laboratory.
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I’ve never had a problem with drugs. I’ve had problems with the police.
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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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The only things Mick and I disagree about is the band, the music and what we do.
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Nobody wants to get old, but nobody wants to die young either.
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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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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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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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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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When I listen to what I did under the influence – 10 years of work – I don’t think it either enhanced or impaired me. It didn’t have that much to do with it.
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Guitar is easy, all it takes is 5 fingers, 6 strings and 1 a**hole.
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Some things get better with age. Like me.
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To 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.
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Music works in mysterious ways. Once it goes in you have no idea what it can do to you.
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