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.
KEITH RICHARDSWhy would you want to be anything else if you’re Mick Jagger?
More Keith Richards Quotes
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Some things get better with age. Like me.
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Everybody thinks you reach a certain age and you’re a grownup, but it’s not true. Nobody grows up until the day they croak.
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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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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 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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I am not doing it just for the money or for you. I am doing it for me.
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I like it here in Austin. Anybody got a room?
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I have no idea what the audience makes of me.
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I never thought I was wasted, but I probably was.
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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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A painter’s got a canvas. The writer’s got reams of empty paper. A musician has silence.
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It’s an addiction and addiction is something I should know something about.
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I’m an unpure purist, something like that.
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Women are a beautiful complication, and I look forward to far more beauties and far more complications.
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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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