I don’t regret nothing.
KEITH RICHARDSI 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.
More Keith Richards Quotes
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It might appear that nothing is happening, but that’s actually when it really happens.
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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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I’ve never had my hair cut by anybody, I do it all myself.
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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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If you’re cool, you don’t know nothing about it. It just is, or you ain’t.
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I looked upon myself, in a sort of romantic and silly way, as like a laboratory.
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Retire? I can’t spell the word. I’d play in a wheelchair.
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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.
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But I’m not here just to make records and money. I’m here to say something and to touch other people, sometimes in a cry of desperation: “Do you know this feeling?
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The rock’s easy, but the roll is another thing.
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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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If you are going to get wasted, then get wasted elegantly.
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I was in awe sometimes listening to Mick Taylor . Everything was there in his playing – the melodic touch, a beautiful sustain and a way of reading a song.
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Preaching is tax free. Very little to do with God, a lot to do with money.
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If you’re going to kick authority in the teeth, you might as well use both feet.
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