It might appear that nothing is happening, but that’s actually when it really happens.
KEITH RICHARDSEveryone talks about rock these days; the problem is they forget about the roll.
More Keith Richards Quotes
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If you say I’m great, thank you very much. But I know what I am. I could be better, man, you know?
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I like it here in Austin. Anybody got a room?
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Guitar is easy, all it takes is 5 fingers, 6 strings and 1 a**hole.
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The electric guitar was vital in helping what I’ve achieved where would I be without it? Playing awfully quietly, for a start.
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I looked upon myself, in a sort of romantic and silly way, as like a laboratory.
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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 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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I’m not getting old I’m evolving.
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True friends. Hardest thing to find, but you never look for them – they found you ; you just grow into each other
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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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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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One minute I’m standing at Ronnie Scott’s getting a standing ovation and the next minute, I’m on a marble slab
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Preaching is tax free. Very little to do with God, a lot to do with money.
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One of the great things about songwrighting; it’s not an intellectual experience.
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I never thought I was wasted, but I probably was.
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