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 RICHARDSA painter’s got a canvas. The writer’s got reams of empty paper. A musician has silence.
More Keith Richards Quotes
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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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Music works in mysterious ways. Once it goes in you have no idea what it can do to you.
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Whatever side I take, I know well that I will be blamed.
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We all have our own personal laboratories. Life is an experiment, and it’s just a matter of getting the alchemical or chemical combination right.
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I’m an unpure purist, something like that.
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If you’re cool, you don’t know nothing about it. It just is, or you ain’t.
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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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But I’ve always felt very comfortable on stage, even if I screw up. It always felt like a dog, this is my turf, piss around it. While I’m here, nothing else can happen. All I can do is screw up. Otherwise, have a good time.
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Preaching is tax free. Very little to do with God, a lot to do with money.
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Let me be clear about this. I don’t have a drug problem. I have a police problem.
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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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My life is full of broken halos.
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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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But I’m not here just to make records and money. I’m here to say something and to touch other people, sometimes in a cry of desperation: “Do you know this feeling?
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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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