One minute I’m standing at Ronnie Scott’s getting a standing ovation and the next minute, I’m on a marble slab
KEITH RICHARDSI don’t regret nothing.
More Keith Richards Quotes
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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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The rock’s easy, but the roll is another thing.
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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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You know, the BBC had not been particularly generous in its deliverance of blues and esoteric kinds of music.
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When you are growing up there are two institutional places that affect you most powerfully: the church, which belongs to God, and the public library, which belongs to you.
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To a musician or songwriter, your canvas is silence.
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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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If you’re going to kick authority in the teeth, you might as well use both feet.
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We all have our own personal laboratories. Life is an experiment, and it’s just a matter of getting the alchemical or chemical combination right.
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I looked upon myself, in a sort of romantic and silly way, as like a laboratory.
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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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Some people think I’m a mythical genius, others think I’m a junkie madman.
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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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Everybody starts by imitating their heroes. For me it was Chuck Berry and Muddy Waters.
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Love has sold more songs than you’ve had hot dinners.
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