No broken hearts, no broken necks.
KEITH RICHARDSI consider my job [being a musician] is to have a little idea and nurture it and put it in some form that everybody else can understand and then sort of pass it on. It’s really a passing through. In other words, you receive and you transmit.
More Keith Richards Quotes
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You don’t find a style. A style finds you.
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Love has sold more songs than you’ve had hot dinners.
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To a musician or songwriter, your canvas is silence.
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I’m an unpure purist, something like that.
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I’m not getting old I’m evolving.
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I never thought I was wasted, but I probably was.
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I like it here in Austin. Anybody got a room?
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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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Everybody thinks you reach a certain age and you’re a grownup, but it’s not true. Nobody grows up until the day they croak.
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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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Everyone talks about rock these days; the problem is they forget about the roll.
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My life is full of broken halos.
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When I listen to what I did under the influence – 10 years of work – I don’t think it either enhanced or impaired me. It didn’t have that much to do with it.
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[John] Belushi was an extreme experience even by my standards.
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I looked upon myself, in a sort of romantic and silly way, as like a laboratory.
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