I like it here in Austin. Anybody got a room?
KEITH RICHARDSAnd then I think we realized, like any young guys, that blues are not learned in a monastery. You’ve got to go out there and get your heart broke and then come back and then you can sing the blues.
More Keith Richards Quotes
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If you stay up, you get the songs that everyone else misses because they’re asleep.
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It might appear that nothing is happening, but that’s actually when it really happens.
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Songwriting’s a weird game.
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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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To me, the main thing about living on this planet is to know who the hell you are and be real about it. That’s the reason I’m still alive.
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You don’t find a style. A style finds you.
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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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My life is full of broken halos.
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Everybody starts by imitating their heroes. For me it was Chuck Berry and Muddy Waters.
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I’m not getting old I’m evolving.
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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’s got a different way of telling a story – and has different stories to tell.
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No broken hearts, no broken necks.
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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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I personally believe that most people that play an instrument would be able to write a few songs here and there. But they say, “I tried, I can’t do it” and give up and don’t try it again; they get too discouraged.
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