If you don’t know the blues there’s no point in picking up the guitar and playing rock and roll or any other form of popular music.
KEITH RICHARDSIf you’re going to kick authority in the teeth, you might as well use both feet.
More Keith Richards Quotes
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If you’re going to kick authority in the teeth, you might as well use both feet.
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I’m not getting old I’m evolving.
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Women are a beautiful complication, and I look forward to far more beauties and far more complications.
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I have no idea what the audience makes of me.
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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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To a musician or songwriter, your canvas is silence.
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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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What is life but playing with time?
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Rock and roll ain’t nothing but jazz with a hard backbeat.
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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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It’s one thing to play a Muddy Waters song. It’s another thing to play with him.
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You get onstage and make other people feel happy. Make them feel good.
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I don’t encourage anybody to do what I do, you know? Why should you? More for me!
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I look for ambiguity when I’m writing because life is ambiguous.
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This is the rock ‘n’ roll life, and you had to invent it as you went along. There was no textbook to say how you operate this machinery.
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