Music is a necessity. After food, air, water and warmth, music is the next necessity of life.
KEITH RICHARDSI never sleep alone. If there is no one to sleep next to, I’ll sleep next to a stuffed animal. It makes me feel secure and safe. It’s a little embarrassing to admit it; I’m an old man now. It’s important to me though.
More Keith Richards Quotes
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One of the great things about songwrighting; it’s not an intellectual experience.
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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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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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I never plan anything, which is probably the difference between Mick and myself. Mick needs to know what he’s gonna do tomorrow and I’m just happy to wake up to see who’s hanging around. Mick’s rock and I’m roll.
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I’ve got nothing against daylight. I don’t live totally nocturnally. Only when I feel like it. Which is most of the time.
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It’s a privilege just to wake up to a new day.
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Whatever side I take, I know well that I will be blamed.
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The Stones in a club is still the ultimate rush.
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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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George Jones is a national treasure and should be treated accordingly. A unique style so often emulated even inadvertently.
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I don’t wave a flag for anything. I’m a musician.
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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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If you’ve gotta think about being cool, you ain’t cool.
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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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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.
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