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.
KEITH RICHARDSSome things get better with age. Like me.
More Keith Richards Quotes
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I don’t wave a flag for anything. I’m a musician.
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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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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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I looked upon myself, in a sort of romantic and silly way, as like a laboratory.
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Whatever side I take, I know well that I will be blamed.
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When you are growing up there are two institutional places that affect you most powerfully: the church, which belongs to God, and the public library, which belongs to you.
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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 look for ambiguity when I’m writing because life is ambiguous.
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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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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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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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I have no idea what the audience makes of me.
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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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I’ve never had my hair cut by anybody, I do it all myself.
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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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