Let me be clear about this. I don’t have a drug problem. I have a police problem.
KEITH RICHARDSRock and Roll: Music for the neck downwards.
More Keith Richards Quotes
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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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I’m an unpure purist, something like that.
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You get onstage and make other people feel happy. Make them feel good.
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It’s an addiction and addiction is something I should know something about.
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Music works in mysterious ways. Once it goes in you have no idea what it can do to you.
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You don’t find a style. A style finds you.
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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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Everybody starts by imitating their heroes. For me it was Chuck Berry and Muddy Waters.
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No broken hearts, no broken necks.
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Guitar is easy, all it takes is 5 fingers, 6 strings and 1 a**hole.
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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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Nobody wants to get old, but nobody wants to die young either.
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To make a rock’n’roll record, technology is the least important thing.
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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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Everybody’s got a different way of telling a story – and has different stories to tell.
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