If you’re going to kick authority in the teeth, you might as well use both feet.
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’s a privilege just to wake up to a new day.
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You can’t accuse me of anything I haven’t already confessed to.
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My life is full of broken halos.
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One of the great things about songwrighting; it’s not an intellectual experience.
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I mean some doctor told me I had six months to live and I went to their funeral.
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Music is a necessity. After food, air, water and warmth, music is the next necessity of life.
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The rock’s easy, but the roll is another thing.
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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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I was number 1 on the who’s likely to die list for 10 years. I was really disappointed when I fell off that list.
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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 make a rock’n’roll record, technology is the least important thing.
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Women are a beautiful complication, and I look forward to far more beauties and far more complications.
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George Jones is a national treasure and should be treated accordingly. A unique style so often emulated even inadvertently.
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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.
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It’s one thing to play a Muddy Waters song. It’s another thing to play with him.
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