It’s one thing to play a Muddy Waters song. It’s another thing to play with him.
KEITH RICHARDSWhen you’re 20, you can’t imagine being 30. When you’re 30, you can’t imagine being 40. When you’re 40, you can’t imagine being 100.
More Keith Richards Quotes
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Love has sold more songs than you’ve had hot dinners.
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I don’t trust doctors. It’s not to say there ain’t some good ones, but on a general level, no, I wouldn’t trust ’em at all.
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I’m not getting old I’m evolving.
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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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Retire? I can’t spell the word. I’d play in a wheelchair.
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I’m free of hypochondria– although I’ve got everything else.
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I look for ambiguity when I’m writing because life is ambiguous.
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[John] Belushi was an extreme experience even by my standards.
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I have no idea what the audience makes of me.
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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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I’ve never had my hair cut by anybody, I do it all myself.
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Some things get better with age. Like me.
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It’s a privilege just to wake up to a new day.
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If you’ve gotta think about being cool, you ain’t cool.
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There’s a demon in me, and he’s still around. Without the dope, we have a bit more of a chat these days.
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