I’m all for a quiet life. I just didn’t get one.
KEITH RICHARDSYou don’t find a style. A style finds you.
More Keith Richards Quotes
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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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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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But I’ve always felt very comfortable on stage, even if I screw up. It always felt like a dog, this is my turf, piss around it. While I’m here, nothing else can happen. All I can do is screw up. Otherwise, have a good time.
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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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Some people think I’m a mythical genius, others think I’m a junkie madman.
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It’s an addiction and addiction is something I should know something about.
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If you’ve gotta think about being cool, you ain’t cool.
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When 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.
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Anything you throw yourself into, you better get yourself out of.
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We age not by holding on to youth, but by letting ourselves grow and embracing whatever youthful parts remain.
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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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And then I think we realized, like any young guys, that blues are not learned in a monastery. You’ve got to go out there and get your heart broke and then come back and then you can sing the blues.
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Yes, I’ve been trepanned. That’s quite an interesting experience, especially for my brain surgeon, who saw my thoughts flying around in my brain.
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Women are a beautiful complication, and I look forward to far more beauties and far more complications.
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Everybody starts by imitating their heroes. For me it was Chuck Berry and Muddy Waters.
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