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 RICHARDSPoison’s not bad. It’s a matter of how much.
More Keith Richards Quotes
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I’m free of hypochondria– although I’ve got everything else.
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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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Music works in mysterious ways. Once it goes in you have no idea what it can do to you.
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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 occasionally borrow pot from my kids. They do a little weed occasionally. ‘Here, Dad’ – or more likely, ‘Dad, have you got any?’
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Rock and roll ain’t nothing but jazz with a hard backbeat.
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I’m not getting old I’m evolving.
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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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Music is a language that doesn’t speak in particular words. It speaks in emotions, and if it’s in the bones, it’s in the bones.
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I don’t trust doctors. It’s not to say there ain’t some good ones, but on a general level, no, I wouldn’t trust ’em at all.
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Preaching is tax free. Very little to do with God, a lot to do with money.
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A painter’s got a canvas. The writer’s got reams of empty paper. A musician has silence.
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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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You know, the BBC had not been particularly generous in its deliverance of blues and esoteric kinds of music.
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You get onstage and make other people feel happy. Make them feel good.
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