Music is a language that doesn’t speak in particular words. It speaks in emotions, and if it’s in the bones, it’s in the bones.
KEITH RICHARDSI’m not getting old I’m evolving.
More Keith Richards Quotes
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I like it here in Austin. Anybody got a room?
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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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I’ve never turned blue in someone else’s bathroom. I consider that the height of bad manners.
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[John] Belushi was an extreme experience even by my standards.
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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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If you say I’m great, thank you very much. But I know what I am. I could be better, man, you know?
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When I listen to what I did under the influence – 10 years of work – I don’t think it either enhanced or impaired me. It didn’t have that much to do with it.
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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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If you are going to get wasted, then get wasted elegantly.
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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 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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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 things get better with age. Like me.
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I don’t regret nothing.
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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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