I read the Bible sometimes, but it bores me to death. I just want to know what other people find so bloody fascinating.
KEITH RICHARDSYou see, to me, the art of music is listening to it, not playing it. The real art of it is hearing it.
More Keith Richards Quotes
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You have the sun, you have the moon, you have the air that you breathe – and you have the Rolling Stones!
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But I’m not here just to make records and money. I’m here to say something and to touch other people, sometimes in a cry of desperation: “Do you know this feeling?
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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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It’s great to be here. It’s great to be anywhere.
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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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I’ve never had my hair cut by anybody, I do it all myself.
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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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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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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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Songwriting’s a weird game.
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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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Poison’s not bad. It’s a matter of how much.
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Rock and roll ain’t nothing but jazz with a hard backbeat.
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I’ve never had inner turmoil about all this. You find a lot of people these days who cannot stand to be alone. You could lock me up in solitary for weeks on end, and I’d keep myself amused.
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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’ve gotta think about being cool, you ain’t cool.
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Why would you want to be anything else if you’re Mick Jagger?
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I achieved everything I wanted to achieve by being in the Rolling Stones and making records.
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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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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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Preaching is tax free. Very little to do with God, a lot to do with money.
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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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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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It’s one thing to play a Muddy Waters song. It’s another thing to play with him.
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I like it here in Austin. Anybody got a room?
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