A painter’s got a canvas. The writer’s got reams of empty paper. A musician has silence.
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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If you’re going to kick authority in the teeth, you might as well use both feet.
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I only get ill when I give up drugs. I don’t have a drug problem, I have a police problem.
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To me, life is a wild animal. You hope to deal with it when it leaps at you.
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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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I never thought I was wasted, but I probably was.
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I mean, give me a guitar, give me a piano, give me a broom and string, I wouldn’t get bored anywhere.
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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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If you’ve gotta think about being cool, you ain’t cool.
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I haven’t stopped smoking; anything.
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Retire? I can’t spell the word. I’d play in a wheelchair.
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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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My life is full of broken halos.
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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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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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When you’re 20, you can’t imagine being 30. When you’re 30, you can’t imagine being 40. When you’re 40, you can’t imagine being 100.
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