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.
KEITH RICHARDSI personally believe that most people that play an instrument would be able to write a few songs here and there. But they say, “I tried, I can’t do it” and give up and don’t try it again; they get too discouraged.
More Keith Richards Quotes
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The public library is the great equaliser.
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Some people think I’m a mythical genius, others think I’m a junkie madman.
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Anything you throw yourself into, you better get yourself out of.
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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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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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Nobody wants to get old, but nobody wants to die young either.
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One of the great things about songwrighting; it’s not an intellectual experience.
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I haven’t stopped smoking; anything.
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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 don’t wave a flag for anything. I’m a musician.
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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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What is life but playing with time?
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You can’t accuse me of anything I haven’t already confessed to.
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I personally believe that most people that play an instrument would be able to write a few songs here and there. But they say, “I tried, I can’t do it” and give up and don’t try it again; they get too discouraged.
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Let me be clear about this. I don’t have a drug problem. I have a police problem.
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