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.
KEITH RICHARDS
And 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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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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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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Preaching is tax free. Very little to do with God, a lot to do with money.
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To a musician or songwriter, your canvas is silence.
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A painter’s got a canvas. The writer’s got reams of empty paper. A musician has silence.
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I’ve never had inner turmoil about all this. You find a lot of people these days who cannot stand to be alone. You could lock me up in solitary for weeks on end, and I’d keep myself amused.
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I don’t encourage anybody to do what I do, you know? Why should you? More for me!
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I don’t trust doctors. It’s not to say there ain’t some good ones, but on a general level, no, I wouldn’t trust ’em at all.
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Everybody starts by imitating their heroes. For me it was Chuck Berry and Muddy Waters.
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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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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 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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Everyone talks about rock these days; the problem is they forget about the roll.
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What Muddy Waters did for us is what we should do for others. It’s the old thing, what you want written on your tombstone as a musician: ‘He passed it on.’
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No broken hearts, no broken necks.
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Retire? I can’t spell the word. I’d play in a wheelchair.
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