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 RICHARDSThe 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.
More Keith Richards Quotes
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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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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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Women are a beautiful complication, and I look forward to far more beauties and far more complications.
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To a musician or songwriter, your canvas is silence.
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Love has sold more songs than you’ve had hot dinners.
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No broken hearts, no broken necks.
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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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I’m not getting old I’m evolving.
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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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You know, the BBC had not been particularly generous in its deliverance of blues and esoteric kinds of music.
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I personally believe that most people that play an instrument would be able to write a few songs here and there. But they say, “I tried, I can’t do it” and give up and don’t try it again; they get too discouraged.
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I 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.
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If you’re going to kick authority in the teeth, you might as well use both feet.
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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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Some things get better with age. Like me.
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We age not by holding on to youth, but by letting ourselves grow and embracing whatever youthful parts remain.
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Music is a necessity. After food, air, water and warmth, music is the next necessity of life.
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I’m free of hypochondria– although I’ve got everything else.
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And then I think we realized, like any young guys, that blues are not learned in a monastery. You’ve got to go out there and get your heart broke and then come back and then you can sing the blues.
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You get onstage and make other people feel happy. Make them feel good.
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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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Preaching is tax free. Very little to do with God, a lot to do with money.
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The public library is the great equaliser.
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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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You don’t find a style. A style finds you.
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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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