I mean some doctor told me I had six months to live and I went to their funeral.
KEITH RICHARDSRetire? I can’t spell the word. I’d play in a wheelchair.
More Keith Richards Quotes
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It’s great to be here. It’s great to be anywhere.
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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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Music is a language that doesn’t speak in particular words. It speaks in emotions, and if it’s in the bones, it’s in the bones.
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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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This is the rock ‘n’ roll life, and you had to invent it as you went along. There was no textbook to say how you operate this machinery.
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You know, the BBC had not been particularly generous in its deliverance of blues and esoteric kinds of music.
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It’s a privilege just to wake up to a new day.
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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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Some people think I’m a mythical genius, others think I’m a junkie madman.
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I’m an unpure purist, something like that.
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One of the great things about songwrighting; it’s not an intellectual experience.
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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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Music works in mysterious ways. Once it goes in you have no idea what it can do to you.
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Guitar is easy, all it takes is 5 fingers, 6 strings and 1 a**hole.
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You’ve got the sun, you’ve got the moon, and you’ve got the Rolling Stones.
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