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.
KEITH RICHARDSThe only things Mick and I disagree about is the band, the music and what we do.
More Keith Richards Quotes
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I’ve never had a problem with drugs. I’ve had problems with the police.
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I looked upon myself, in a sort of romantic and silly way, as like a laboratory.
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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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I was in awe sometimes listening to Mick Taylor . Everything was there in his playing – the melodic touch, a beautiful sustain and a way of reading a song.
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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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It’s an addiction and addiction is something I should know something about.
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Everybody’s got a different way of telling a story – and has different stories to tell.
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[John] Belushi was an extreme experience even by my standards.
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I occasionally borrow pot from my kids. They do a little weed occasionally. ‘Here, Dad’ – or more likely, ‘Dad, have you got any?’
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It might appear that nothing is happening, but that’s actually when it really happens.
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We all have our own personal laboratories. Life is an experiment, and it’s just a matter of getting the alchemical or chemical combination right.
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If you stay up, you get the songs that everyone else misses because they’re asleep.
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I achieved everything I wanted to achieve by being in the Rolling Stones and making records.
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I’m not getting old I’m evolving.
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Retire? I can’t spell the word. I’d play in a wheelchair.
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