I’m free of hypochondria– although I’ve got everything else.
KEITH RICHARDSIt’s one thing to play a Muddy Waters song. It’s another thing to play with him.
More Keith Richards Quotes
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The electric guitar was vital in helping what I’ve achieved where would I be without it? Playing awfully quietly, for a start.
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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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My life is full of broken halos.
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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.
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Music is a necessity. After food, air, water and warmth, music is the next necessity of life.
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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 turned blue in someone else’s bathroom. I consider that the height of bad manners.
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Whatever side I take, I know well that I will be blamed.
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What is life but playing with time?
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Fame has killed more very talented guys than drugs. Jimi Hendrix didn’t die of an overdose, he died of fame.
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Retire? I can’t spell the word. I’d play in a wheelchair.
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Everybody starts by imitating their heroes. For me it was Chuck Berry and Muddy Waters.
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Anything you throw yourself into, you better get yourself out of.
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You’ve got the sun, you’ve got the moon, and you’ve got the Rolling Stones.
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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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