If you don’t know the blues there’s no point in picking up the guitar and playing rock and roll or any other form of popular music.
KEITH RICHARDSI 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.
More Keith Richards Quotes
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I haven’t stopped smoking; anything.
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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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I have no idea what the audience makes of me.
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You get onstage and make other people feel happy. Make them feel good.
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[John] Belushi was an extreme experience even by my standards.
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You see, to me, the art of music is listening to it, not playing it. The real art of it is hearing it.
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I’m an unpure purist, something like that.
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Everybody’s got a different way of telling a story – and has different stories to tell.
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Rock and Roll: Music for the neck downwards.
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I never thought I was wasted, but I probably was.
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This is the rock ‘n’ roll life, and you had to invent it as you went along. There was no textbook to say how you operate this machinery.
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It’s an addiction and addiction is something I should know something about.
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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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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 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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