You know, the BBC had not been particularly generous in its deliverance of blues and esoteric kinds of music.
KEITH RICHARDSI mean, give me a guitar, give me a piano, give me a broom and string, I wouldn’t get bored anywhere.
More Keith Richards Quotes
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I looked upon myself, in a sort of romantic and silly way, as like a laboratory.
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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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I look for ambiguity when I’m writing because life is ambiguous.
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If you stay up, you get the songs that everyone else misses because they’re asleep.
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I like it here in Austin. Anybody got a room?
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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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[John] Belushi was an extreme experience even by my standards.
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There’s a demon in me, and he’s still around. Without the dope, we have a bit more of a chat these days.
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Retire? I can’t spell the word. I’d play in a wheelchair.
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You don’t find a style. A style finds you.
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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 am not doing it just for the money or for you. I am doing it for me.
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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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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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My life is full of broken halos.
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