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.
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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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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I don’t regret nothing.
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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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I’m all for a quiet life. I just didn’t get one.
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To a musician or songwriter, your canvas is silence.
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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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I’m an unpure purist, something like that.
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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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If you’re going to kick authority in the teeth, you might as well use both feet.
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Songwriting’s a weird game.
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I’m free of hypochondria– although I’ve got everything else.
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The Stones in a club is still the ultimate rush.
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My life is full of broken halos.
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You have the sun, you have the moon, you have the air that you breathe – and you have the Rolling Stones!
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What’s the big deal about still working? Retirement age is sixty-five, and that’s at a normal job – and I ain’t there yet.
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