Some people think I’m a mythical genius, others think I’m a junkie madman.
KEITH RICHARDSRock and Roll: Music for the neck downwards.
More Keith Richards Quotes
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It’s an addiction and addiction is something I should know something about.
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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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Rock and Roll: Music for the neck downwards.
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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.
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Guitar is easy, all it takes is 5 fingers, 6 strings and 1 a**hole.
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What is life but playing with time?
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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 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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Let me be clear about this. I don’t have a drug problem. I have a police problem.
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I have no idea what the audience makes of me.
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It’s great to be here. It’s great to be anywhere.
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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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A painter’s got a canvas. The writer’s got reams of empty paper. A musician has silence.
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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.
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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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