The rock’s easy, but the roll is another thing.
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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You get onstage and make other people feel happy. Make them feel good.
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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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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’m all for a quiet life. I just didn’t get one.
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I haven’t stopped smoking; anything.
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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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Rock and Roll: Music for the neck downwards.
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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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My life is full of broken halos.
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My father. I snorted my father. He was cremated and I couldn’t resist grinding him up with a little bit of blow.
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If you don’t know the blues there’s no point in picking up the guitar and playing rock and roll or any other form of popular music.
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Some people think I’m a mythical genius, others think I’m a junkie madman.
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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 am not doing it just for the money or for you. I am doing it for me.
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I have no idea what the audience makes of me.
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