I mean some doctor told me I had six months to live and I went to their funeral.
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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I never plan anything, which is probably the difference between Mick and myself. Mick needs to know what he’s gonna do tomorrow and I’m just happy to wake up to see who’s hanging around. Mick’s rock and I’m roll.
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It’s a privilege just to wake up to a new day.
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What Muddy Waters did for us is what we should do for others. It’s the old thing, what you want written on your tombstone as a musician: ‘He passed it on.’
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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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To me, life is a wild animal. You hope to deal with it when it leaps at you.
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I’m all for a quiet life. I just didn’t get one.
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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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I’ve never had my hair cut by anybody, I do it all myself.
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There’s a demon in me, and he’s still around. Without the dope, we have a bit more of a chat these days.
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Whatever side I take, I know well that I will be blamed.
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Everyone talks about rock these days; the problem is they forget about the roll.
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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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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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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’ve always felt very comfortable on stage, even if I screw up. It always felt like a dog, this is my turf, piss around it. While I’m here, nothing else can happen. All I can do is screw up. Otherwise, have a good time.
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