Music works in mysterious ways. Once it goes in you have no idea what it can do to you.
KEITH RICHARDSWe all have our own personal laboratories. Life is an experiment, and it’s just a matter of getting the alchemical or chemical combination right.
More Keith Richards Quotes
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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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I like it here in Austin. Anybody got a room?
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Rock and Roll: Music for the neck downwards.
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I’m an unpure purist, something like that.
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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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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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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 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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I occasionally borrow pot from my kids. They do a little weed occasionally. ‘Here, Dad’ – or more likely, ‘Dad, have you got any?’
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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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Retire? I can’t spell the word. I’d play in a wheelchair.
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Why would you want to be anything else if you’re Mick Jagger?
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You get onstage and make other people feel happy. Make them feel good.
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My father. I snorted my father. He was cremated and I couldn’t resist grinding him up with a little bit of blow.
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I’ve never had my hair cut by anybody, I do it all myself.
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