And then I think we realized, like any young guys, that blues are not learned in a monastery. You’ve got to go out there and get your heart broke and then come back and then you can sing the blues.
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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Guitar is easy, all it takes is 5 fingers, 6 strings and 1 a**hole.
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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 don’t wave a flag for anything. I’m a musician.
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I never thought I was wasted, but I probably was.
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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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My life is full of broken halos.
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To a musician or songwriter, your canvas is silence.
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I’ve got nothing against daylight. I don’t live totally nocturnally. Only when I feel like it. Which is most of the time.
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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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I looked upon myself, in a sort of romantic and silly way, as like a laboratory.
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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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The electric guitar was vital in helping what I’ve achieved where would I be without it? Playing awfully quietly, for a start.
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I like it here in Austin. Anybody got a room?
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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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If you’re going to kick authority in the teeth, you might as well use both feet.
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