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 RICHARDSTrue friends. Hardest thing to find, but you never look for them – they found you ; you just grow into each other
More Keith Richards Quotes
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To me, the main thing about living on this planet is to know who the hell you are and be real about it. That’s the reason I’m still alive.
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What’s the big deal about still working? Retirement age is sixty-five, and that’s at a normal job – and I ain’t there yet.
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Nobody wants to get old, but nobody wants to die young either.
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Preaching is tax free. Very little to do with God, a lot to do with money.
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The rock’s easy, but the roll is another thing.
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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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One minute I’m standing at Ronnie Scott’s getting a standing ovation and the next minute, I’m on a marble slab
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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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The only things Mick and I disagree about is the band, the music and what we do.
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[John] Belushi was an extreme experience even by my standards.
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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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I don’t wave a flag for anything. I’m a musician.
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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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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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No broken hearts, no broken necks.
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