One of the great things about songwrighting; it’s not an intellectual experience.
KEITH RICHARDSI’ve never had my hair cut by anybody, I do it all myself.
More Keith Richards Quotes
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When I listen to what I did under the influence – 10 years of work – I don’t think it either enhanced or impaired me. It didn’t have that much to do with it.
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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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The Stones in a club is still the ultimate rush.
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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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Music works in mysterious ways. Once it goes in you have no idea what it can do to you.
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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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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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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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The rock’s easy, but the roll is another thing.
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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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To me, my biggest fear is getting a big head, and that is when I get the hammer. Because it’s very easy in this game to believe you’re something special.
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To me, life is a wild animal. You hope to deal with it when it leaps at you.
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Everyone talks about rock these days; the problem is they forget about the roll.
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No broken hearts, no broken necks.
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Yes, I’ve been trepanned. That’s quite an interesting experience, especially for my brain surgeon, who saw my thoughts flying around in my brain.
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