The electric guitar was vital in helping what I’ve achieved where would I be without it? Playing awfully quietly, for a start.
KEITH RICHARDSWomen are a beautiful complication, and I look forward to far more beauties and far more complications.
More Keith Richards Quotes
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If you’ve gotta think about being cool, you ain’t cool.
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I’ve never turned blue in someone else’s bathroom. I consider that the height of bad manners.
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What 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.’
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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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One of the great things about songwrighting; it’s not an intellectual experience.
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The Stones in a club is still the ultimate rush.
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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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You don’t find a style. A style finds you.
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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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What’s the big deal about still working? Retirement age is sixty-five, and that’s at a normal job – and I ain’t there yet.
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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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It’s a privilege just to wake up to a new day.
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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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You have the sun, you have the moon, you have the air that you breathe – and you have the Rolling Stones!
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Nobody wants to get old, but nobody wants to die young either.
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