To a musician or songwriter, your canvas is silence.
KEITH RICHARDSI have no idea what the audience makes of me.
More Keith Richards Quotes
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One minute I’m standing at Ronnie Scott’s getting a standing ovation and the next minute, I’m on a marble slab
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To make a rock’n’roll record, technology is the least important thing.
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I 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.
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It’s one thing to play a Muddy Waters song. It’s another thing to play with him.
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To me, life is a wild animal. You hope to deal with it when it leaps at you.
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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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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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I don’t regret nothing.
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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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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 have no idea what the audience makes of me.
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I was number 1 on the who’s likely to die list for 10 years. I was really disappointed when I fell off that list.
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I never thought I was wasted, but I probably was.
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I’m not getting old I’m evolving.
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If you stay up, you get the songs that everyone else misses because they’re asleep.
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