Preaching is tax free. Very little to do with God, a lot to do with money.
KEITH RICHARDSWhat is life but playing with time?
More Keith Richards Quotes
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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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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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To me, my biggest fear is getting a big head, and that is when I get the hammer. Because it’s very easy in this game to believe you’re something special.
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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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The idea of retiring is like killing yourself. It’s almost like Hari Kari. I intend to live to a 100 and go down in history.
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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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Why would you want to be anything else if you’re Mick Jagger?
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It’s a privilege just to wake up to a new day.
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[John] Belushi was an extreme experience even by my standards.
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One of the great things about songwrighting; it’s not an intellectual experience.
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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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What is life but playing with time?
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I was number 1 on the who’s likely to die list for 10 years. I was really disappointed when I fell off that list.
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Rock and roll ain’t nothing but jazz with a hard backbeat.
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Everybody thinks you reach a certain age and you’re a grownup, but it’s not true. Nobody grows up until the day they croak.
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