I personally believe that most people that play an instrument would be able to write a few songs here and there. But they say, “I tried, I can’t do it” and give up and don’t try it again; they get too discouraged.
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 have no idea what the audience makes of me.
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I mean, give me a guitar, give me a piano, give me a broom and string, I wouldn’t get bored anywhere.
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I’m free of hypochondria– although I’ve got everything else.
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If you are going to get wasted, then get wasted elegantly.
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I mean some doctor told me I had six months to live and I went to their funeral.
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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 look for ambiguity when I’m writing because life is ambiguous.
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I’ve got nothing against daylight. I don’t live totally nocturnally. Only when I feel like it. Which is most of the time.
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Everybody starts by imitating their heroes. For me it was Chuck Berry and Muddy Waters.
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But I’ve always felt very comfortable on stage, even if I screw up. It always felt like a dog, this is my turf, piss around it. While I’m here, nothing else can happen. All I can do is screw up. Otherwise, have a good time.
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You see, to me, the art of music is listening to it, not playing it. The real art of it is hearing it.
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I never plan anything, which is probably the difference between Mick and myself. Mick needs to know what he’s gonna do tomorrow and I’m just happy to wake up to see who’s hanging around. Mick’s rock and I’m roll.
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To make a rock’n’roll record, technology is the least important thing.
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I only get ill when I give up drugs. I don’t have a drug problem, I have a police problem.
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If you’ve gotta think about being cool, you ain’t cool.
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