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.
KEITH RICHARDSI looked upon myself, in a sort of romantic and silly way, as like a laboratory.
More Keith Richards Quotes
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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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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 free of hypochondria– although I’ve got everything else.
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I achieved everything I wanted to achieve by being in the Rolling Stones and making records.
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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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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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Whatever side I take, I know well that I will be blamed.
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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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You get onstage and make other people feel happy. Make them feel good.
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I don’t wave a flag for anything. I’m a musician.
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We all have our own personal laboratories. Life is an experiment, and it’s just a matter of getting the alchemical or chemical combination right.
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Guitar is easy, all it takes is 5 fingers, 6 strings and 1 a**hole.
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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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You know, the BBC had not been particularly generous in its deliverance of blues and esoteric kinds of music.
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Preaching is tax free. Very little to do with God, a lot to do with money.
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