I achieved everything I wanted to achieve by being in the Rolling Stones and making records.
KEITH RICHARDSGuitar is easy, all it takes is 5 fingers, 6 strings and 1 a**hole.
More Keith Richards Quotes
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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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It might appear that nothing is happening, but that’s actually when it really happens.
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I never thought I was wasted, but I probably was.
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If you stay up, you get the songs that everyone else misses because they’re asleep.
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The idea of retiring is like killing yourself. It’s almost like Hari Kari. I intend to live to a 100 and go down in history.
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You get onstage and make other people feel happy. Make them feel good.
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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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A painter’s got a canvas. The writer’s got reams of empty paper. A musician has silence.
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Yes, I’ve been trepanned. That’s quite an interesting experience, especially for my brain surgeon, who saw my thoughts flying around in my brain.
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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’m free of hypochondria– although I’ve got everything else.
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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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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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There’s a demon in me, and he’s still around. Without the dope, we have a bit more of a chat these days.
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Whatever side I take, I know well that I will be blamed.
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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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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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One of the great things about songwrighting; it’s not an intellectual experience.
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You don’t find a style. A style finds you.
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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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The only things Mick and I disagree about is the band, the music and what we do.
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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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I am not doing it just for the money or for you. I am doing it for me.
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If you say I’m great, thank you very much. But I know what I am. I could be better, man, you know?
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I looked upon myself, in a sort of romantic and silly way, as like a laboratory.
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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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