It’s great to be here. It’s great to be anywhere.
KEITH RICHARDSMy life is full of broken halos.
More Keith Richards Quotes
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Whatever side I take, I know well that I will be blamed.
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I’ve never had a problem with drugs. I’ve had problems with the police.
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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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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.
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One of the great things about songwrighting; it’s not an intellectual experience.
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I looked upon myself, in a sort of romantic and silly way, as like a laboratory.
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Anything you throw yourself into, you better get yourself out of.
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You see, to me, the art of music is listening to it, not playing it. The real art of it is hearing it.
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If you say I’m great, thank you very much. But I know what I am. I could be better, man, you know?
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I read the Bible sometimes, but it bores me to death. I just want to know what other people find so bloody fascinating.
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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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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.
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I like it here in Austin. Anybody got a room?
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Nobody wants to get old, but nobody wants to die young either.
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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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