One of the great things about songwrighting; it’s not an intellectual experience.
KEITH RICHARDSI don’t encourage anybody to do what I do, you know? Why should you? More for me!
More Keith Richards Quotes
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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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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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I’ve never turned blue in someone else’s bathroom. I consider that the height of bad manners.
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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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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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My life is full of broken halos.
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It’s an addiction and addiction is something I should know something about.
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I like it here in Austin. Anybody got a room?
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Guitar is easy, all it takes is 5 fingers, 6 strings and 1 a**hole.
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I haven’t stopped smoking; anything.
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I’m an unpure purist, something like that.
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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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I am not doing it just for the money or for you. I am doing it for me.
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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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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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