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 RICHARDSIt might appear that nothing is happening, but that’s actually when it really happens.
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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Nobody wants to get old, but nobody wants to die young either.
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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 an unpure purist, something like that.
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Why would you want to be anything else if you’re Mick Jagger?
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There’s a demon in me, and he’s still around. Without the dope, we have a bit more of a chat these days.
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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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The public library is the great equaliser.
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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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No broken hearts, no broken necks.
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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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It’s one thing to play a Muddy Waters song. It’s another thing to play with him.
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I looked upon myself, in a sort of romantic and silly way, as like a laboratory.
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I’m free of hypochondria– although I’ve got everything else.
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Whatever side I take, I know well that I will be blamed.
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