If you stay up, you get the songs that everyone else misses because they’re asleep.
KEITH RICHARDSLove has sold more songs than you’ve had hot dinners.
More Keith Richards Quotes
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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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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 was number 1 on the who’s likely to die list for 10 years. I was really disappointed when I fell off that list.
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You know, the BBC had not been particularly generous in its deliverance of blues and esoteric kinds of music.
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No broken hearts, no broken necks.
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Some things get better with age. Like me.
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When I listen to what I did under the influence – 10 years of work – I don’t think it either enhanced or impaired me. It didn’t have that much to do with it.
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When you are growing up there are two institutional places that affect you most powerfully: the church, which belongs to God, and the public library, which belongs to you.
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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.
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I haven’t stopped smoking; anything.
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It’s one thing to play a Muddy Waters song. It’s another thing to play with him.
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If you’re cool, you don’t know nothing about it. It just is, or you ain’t.
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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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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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You can’t accuse me of anything I haven’t already confessed to.
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