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.
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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I mean, give me a guitar, give me a piano, give me a broom and string, I wouldn’t get bored anywhere.
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I looked upon myself, in a sort of romantic and silly way, as like a laboratory.
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[John] Belushi was an extreme experience even by my standards.
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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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I never sleep alone. If there is no one to sleep next to, I’ll sleep next to a stuffed animal. It makes me feel secure and safe. It’s a little embarrassing to admit it; I’m an old man now. It’s important to me though.
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We all have our own personal laboratories. Life is an experiment, and it’s just a matter of getting the alchemical or chemical combination right.
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Guitar is easy, all it takes is 5 fingers, 6 strings and 1 a**hole.
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If you’ve gotta think about being cool, you ain’t cool.
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Songwriting’s a weird game.
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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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My father. I snorted my father. He was cremated and I couldn’t resist grinding him up with a little bit of blow.
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George Jones is a national treasure and should be treated accordingly. A unique style so often emulated even inadvertently.
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The public library is the great equaliser.
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It might appear that nothing is happening, but that’s actually when it really happens.
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Rock and roll ain’t nothing but jazz with a hard backbeat.
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