Music is a language that doesn’t speak in particular words. It speaks in emotions, and if it’s in the bones, it’s in the bones.
KEITH RICHARDSNobody wants to get old, but nobody wants to die young either.
More Keith Richards Quotes
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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’ve never had a problem with drugs. I’ve had problems with the police.
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I looked upon myself, in a sort of romantic and silly way, as like a laboratory.
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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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If you’re going to kick authority in the teeth, you might as well use both feet.
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I’m free of hypochondria– although I’ve got everything else.
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You get onstage and make other people feel happy. Make them feel good.
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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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Whatever side I take, I know well that I will be blamed.
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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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I have no idea what the audience makes of me.
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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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I only get ill when I give up drugs. I don’t have a drug problem, I have a police problem.
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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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Why would you want to be anything else if you’re Mick Jagger?
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Love has sold more songs than you’ve had hot dinners.
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Yes, I’ve been trepanned. That’s quite an interesting experience, especially for my brain surgeon, who saw my thoughts flying around in my brain.
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I’ve got nothing against daylight. I don’t live totally nocturnally. Only when I feel like it. Which is most of the time.
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I don’t encourage anybody to do what I do, you know? Why should you? More for me!
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I’m not getting old I’m evolving.
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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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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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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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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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I’ve never turned blue in someone else’s bathroom. I consider that the height of bad manners.
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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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