You don’t find a style. A style finds you.
KEITH RICHARDSWe all have our own personal laboratories. Life is an experiment, and it’s just a matter of getting the alchemical or chemical combination right.
More Keith Richards Quotes
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If you’ve gotta think about being cool, you ain’t cool.
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But I’m not here just to make records and money. I’m here to say something and to touch other people, sometimes in a cry of desperation: “Do you know this feeling?
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You get onstage and make other people feel happy. Make them feel good.
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To a musician or songwriter, your canvas is silence.
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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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Rock and roll ain’t nothing but jazz with a hard backbeat.
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Love has sold more songs than you’ve had hot dinners.
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To make a rock’n’roll record, technology is the least important thing.
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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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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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The rock’s easy, but the roll is another thing.
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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.
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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’ve never had my hair cut by anybody, I do it all myself.
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