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 RICHARDSI achieved everything I wanted to achieve by being in the Rolling Stones and making records.
More Keith Richards Quotes
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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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It’s a privilege just to wake up to a new day.
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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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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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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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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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Guitar is easy, all it takes is 5 fingers, 6 strings and 1 a**hole.
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I’m free of hypochondria– although I’ve got everything else.
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No broken hearts, no broken necks.
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The idea of retiring is like killing yourself. It’s almost like Hari Kari. I intend to live to a 100 and go down in history.
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You’ve got the sun, you’ve got the moon, and you’ve got the Rolling Stones.
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If you stay up, you get the songs that everyone else misses because they’re asleep.
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I’ve never turned blue in someone else’s bathroom. I consider that the height of bad manners.
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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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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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