I consider my job [being a musician] is to have a little idea and nurture it and put it in some form that everybody else can understand and then sort of pass it on. It’s really a passing through. In other words, you receive and you transmit.
KEITH RICHARDSThere’s a demon in me, and he’s still around. Without the dope, we have a bit more of a chat these days.
More Keith Richards Quotes
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Anything you throw yourself into, you better get yourself out of.
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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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I like it here in Austin. Anybody got a room?
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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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Everyone talks about rock these days; the problem is they forget about the roll.
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I have no idea what the audience makes of me.
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[John] Belushi was an extreme experience even by my standards.
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It’s a privilege just to wake up to a new day.
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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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George Jones is a national treasure and should be treated accordingly. A unique style so often emulated even inadvertently.
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I mean some doctor told me I had six months to live and I went to their funeral.
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The public library is the great equaliser.
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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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I occasionally borrow pot from my kids. They do a little weed occasionally. ‘Here, Dad’ – or more likely, ‘Dad, have you got any?’
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To a musician or songwriter, your canvas is silence.
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