Whatever side I take, I know well that I will be blamed.
KEITH RICHARDSYes, I’ve been trepanned. That’s quite an interesting experience, especially for my brain surgeon, who saw my thoughts flying around in my brain.
More Keith Richards Quotes
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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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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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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.
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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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Everybody starts by imitating their heroes. For me it was Chuck Berry and Muddy Waters.
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Nobody wants to get old, but nobody wants to die young either.
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It might appear that nothing is happening, but that’s actually when it really happens.
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To a musician or songwriter, your canvas is silence.
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I look for ambiguity when I’m writing because life is ambiguous.
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I’m free of hypochondria– although I’ve got everything else.
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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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If you don’t know the blues there’s no point in picking up the guitar and playing rock and roll or any other form of popular music.
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If you are going to get wasted, then get wasted elegantly.
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Why would you want to be anything else if you’re Mick Jagger?
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