To a musician or songwriter, your canvas is silence.
KEITH RICHARDSI’m not getting old I’m evolving.
More Keith Richards Quotes
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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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If you’ve gotta think about being cool, you ain’t cool.
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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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To me, the main thing about living on this planet is to know who the hell you are and be real about it. That’s the reason I’m still alive.
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I’m all for a quiet life. I just didn’t get one.
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Fame has killed more very talented guys than drugs. Jimi Hendrix didn’t die of an overdose, he died of fame.
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I am not doing it just for the money or for you. I am doing it for me.
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Some people think I’m a mythical genius, others think I’m a junkie madman.
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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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We age not by holding on to youth, but by letting ourselves grow and embracing whatever youthful parts remain.
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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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The electric guitar was vital in helping what I’ve achieved where would I be without it? Playing awfully quietly, for a start.
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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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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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Nobody wants to get old, but nobody wants to die young either.
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