I’ve never turned blue in someone else’s bathroom. I consider that the height of bad manners.
KEITH RICHARDS[John] Belushi was an extreme experience even by my standards.
More Keith Richards Quotes
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Poison’s not bad. It’s a matter of how much.
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If you’ve gotta think about being cool, you ain’t cool.
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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.
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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 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 never sleep alone. If there is no one to sleep next to, I’ll sleep next to a stuffed animal. It makes me feel secure and safe. It’s a little embarrassing to admit it; I’m an old man now. It’s important to me though.
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One of the great things about songwrighting; it’s not an intellectual experience.
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But I’ve always felt very comfortable on stage, even if I screw up. It always felt like a dog, this is my turf, piss around it. While I’m here, nothing else can happen. All I can do is screw up. Otherwise, have a good time.
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You get onstage and make other people feel happy. Make them feel good.
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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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Anything you throw yourself into, you better get yourself out of.
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To make a rock’n’roll record, technology is the least important thing.
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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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Retire? I can’t spell the word. I’d play in a wheelchair.
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I like it here in Austin. Anybody got a room?
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