You see, to me, the art of music is listening to it, not playing it. The real art of it is hearing it.
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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Everybody’s got a different way of telling a story – and has different stories to tell.
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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’m all for a quiet life. I just didn’t get one.
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Guitar is easy, all it takes is 5 fingers, 6 strings and 1 a**hole.
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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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If you stay up, you get the songs that everyone else misses because they’re asleep.
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Love has sold more songs than you’ve had hot dinners.
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Whatever side I take, I know well that I will be blamed.
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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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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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To make a rock’n’roll record, technology is the least important thing.
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No broken hearts, no broken necks.
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I mean some doctor told me I had six months to live and I went to their funeral.
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George Jones is a national treasure and should be treated accordingly. A unique style so often emulated even inadvertently.
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I achieved everything I wanted to achieve by being in the Rolling Stones and making records.
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