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.
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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You get onstage and make other people feel happy. Make them feel good.
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I haven’t stopped smoking; anything.
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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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If you are going to get wasted, then get wasted elegantly.
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I read the Bible sometimes, but it bores me to death. I just want to know what other people find so bloody fascinating.
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Preaching is tax free. Very little to do with God, a lot to do with money.
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I occasionally borrow pot from my kids. They do a little weed occasionally. ‘Here, Dad’ – or more likely, ‘Dad, have you got any?’
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Rock and Roll: Music for the neck downwards.
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It’s an addiction and addiction is something I should know something about.
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You see, to me, the art of music is listening to it, not playing it. The real art of it is hearing it.
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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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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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[John] Belushi was an extreme experience even by my standards.
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I never plan anything, which is probably the difference between Mick and myself. Mick needs to know what he’s gonna do tomorrow and I’m just happy to wake up to see who’s hanging around. Mick’s rock and I’m roll.
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Everybody starts by imitating their heroes. For me it was Chuck Berry and Muddy Waters.
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