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.’
KEITH RICHARDSI don’t wave a flag for anything. I’m a musician.
More Keith Richards Quotes
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What’s the big deal about still working? Retirement age is sixty-five, and that’s at a normal job – and I ain’t there yet.
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Everybody’s got a different way of telling a story – and has different stories to tell.
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I read the Bible sometimes, but it bores me to death. I just want to know what other people find so bloody fascinating.
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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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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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If you stay up, you get the songs that everyone else misses because they’re asleep.
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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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To make a rock’n’roll record, technology is the least important thing.
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Why would you want to be anything else if you’re Mick Jagger?
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When you’re 20, you can’t imagine being 30. When you’re 30, you can’t imagine being 40. When you’re 40, you can’t imagine being 100.
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You’ve got the sun, you’ve got the moon, and you’ve got the Rolling Stones.
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My life is full of broken halos.
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I’m free of hypochondria– although I’ve got everything else.
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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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I don’t wave a flag for anything. I’m a musician.
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