You get onstage and make other people feel happy. Make them feel good.
KEITH RICHARDSIt might appear that nothing is happening, but that’s actually when it really happens.
More Keith Richards Quotes
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I’ve never had a problem with drugs. I’ve had problems with the police.
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The public library is the great equaliser.
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I don’t wave a flag for anything. I’m a musician.
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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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George Jones is a national treasure and should be treated accordingly. A unique style so often emulated even inadvertently.
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Guitar is easy, all it takes is 5 fingers, 6 strings and 1 a**hole.
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I don’t trust doctors. It’s not to say there ain’t some good ones, but on a general level, no, I wouldn’t trust ’em at all.
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I was in awe sometimes listening to Mick Taylor . Everything was there in his playing – the melodic touch, a beautiful sustain and a way of reading a song.
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Whatever side I take, I know well that I will be blamed.
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To a musician or songwriter, your canvas is silence.
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I like it here in Austin. Anybody got a room?
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It’s one thing to play a Muddy Waters song. It’s another thing to play with him.
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I personally believe that most people that play an instrument would be able to write a few songs here and there. But they say, “I tried, I can’t do it” and give up and don’t try it again; they get too discouraged.
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I’m not getting old I’m evolving.
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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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