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.
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
-
-
I achieved everything I wanted to achieve by being in the Rolling Stones and making records.
KEITH RICHARDS -
You can’t accuse me of anything I haven’t already confessed to.
KEITH RICHARDS -
I’ve got nothing against daylight. I don’t live totally nocturnally. Only when I feel like it. Which is most of the time.
KEITH RICHARDS -
The Stones in a club is still the ultimate rush.
KEITH RICHARDS -
It’s an addiction and addiction is something I should know something about.
KEITH RICHARDS -
If you don’t know the blues there’s no point in picking up the guitar and playing rock and roll or any other form of popular music.
KEITH RICHARDS -
Everyone talks about rock these days; the problem is they forget about the roll.
KEITH RICHARDS -
To me, life is a wild animal. You hope to deal with it when it leaps at you.
KEITH RICHARDS -
I’m an unpure purist, something like that.
KEITH RICHARDS -
One minute I’m standing at Ronnie Scott’s getting a standing ovation and the next minute, I’m on a marble slab
KEITH RICHARDS -
Nobody wants to get old, but nobody wants to die young either.
KEITH RICHARDS -
I have no idea what the audience makes of me.
KEITH RICHARDS -
I never sleep alone. If there is no one to sleep next to, I’ll sleep next to a stuffed animal. It makes me feel secure and safe. It’s a little embarrassing to admit it; I’m an old man now. It’s important to me though.
KEITH RICHARDS -
You don’t find a style. A style finds you.
KEITH RICHARDS -
It might appear that nothing is happening, but that’s actually when it really happens.
KEITH RICHARDS