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 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 don’t find a style. A style finds you.
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George Jones is a national treasure and should be treated accordingly. A unique style so often emulated even inadvertently.
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Rock and Roll: Music for the neck downwards.
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Anything you throw yourself into, you better get yourself out of.
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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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It’s one thing to play a Muddy Waters song. It’s another thing to play with him.
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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 have no idea what the audience makes of me.
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Guitar is easy, all it takes is 5 fingers, 6 strings and 1 a**hole.
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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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The idea of retiring is like killing yourself. It’s almost like Hari Kari. I intend to live to a 100 and go down in history.
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Love has sold more songs than you’ve had hot dinners.
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If you’re cool, you don’t know nothing about it. It just is, or you ain’t.
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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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Everybody thinks you reach a certain age and you’re a grownup, but it’s not true. Nobody grows up until the day they croak.
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