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.
KEITH RICHARDSTo make a rock’n’roll record, technology is the least important thing.
More Keith Richards Quotes
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The rock’s easy, but the roll is another thing.
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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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If you say I’m great, thank you very much. But I know what I am. I could be better, man, you know?
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Everybody’s got a different way of telling a story – and has different stories to tell.
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You have the sun, you have the moon, you have the air that you breathe – and you have the Rolling Stones!
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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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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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I don’t regret nothing.
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To a musician or songwriter, your canvas is silence.
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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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What Muddy Waters did for us is what we should do for others. It’s the old thing, what you want written on your tombstone as a musician: ‘He passed it on.’
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Rock and Roll: Music for the neck downwards.
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When you are growing up there are two institutional places that affect you most powerfully: the church, which belongs to God, and the public library, which belongs to you.
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I never thought I was wasted, but I probably was.
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