To me, my biggest fear is getting a big head, and that is when I get the hammer. Because it’s very easy in this game to believe you’re something special.
KEITH RICHARDSA painter’s got a canvas. The writer’s got reams of empty paper. A musician has silence.
More Keith Richards Quotes
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The only things Mick and I disagree about is the band, the music and what we do.
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I don’t wave a flag for anything. I’m a musician.
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It’s a privilege just to wake up to a new day.
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But I’m not here just to make records and money. I’m here to say something and to touch other people, sometimes in a cry of desperation: “Do you know this feeling?
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Preaching is tax free. Very little to do with God, a lot to do with money.
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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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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 am not doing it just for the money or for you. I am doing it for me.
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What is life but playing with time?
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I like it here in Austin. Anybody got a room?
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Fame has killed more very talented guys than drugs. Jimi Hendrix didn’t die of an overdose, he died of fame.
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It might appear that nothing is happening, but that’s actually when it really happens.
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If you are going to get wasted, then get wasted elegantly.
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I don’t regret nothing.
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I have no idea what the audience makes of me.
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