Music is a language that doesn’t speak in particular words. It speaks in emotions, and if it’s in the bones, it’s in the bones.
KEITH RICHARDSWhat 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.’
More Keith Richards Quotes
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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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Some things get better with age. Like me.
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To make a rock’n’roll record, technology is the least important thing.
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The rock’s easy, but the roll is another thing.
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Nobody wants to get old, but nobody wants to die young either.
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What is life but playing with time?
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Love has sold more songs than you’ve had hot dinners.
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Poison’s not bad. It’s a matter of how much.
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It’s a privilege just to wake up to a new day.
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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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If you stay up, you get the songs that everyone else misses because they’re asleep.
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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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I’m all for a quiet life. I just didn’t get one.
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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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[John] Belushi was an extreme experience even by my standards.
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