I don’t wave a flag for anything. I’m a musician.
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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The only things Mick and I disagree about is the band, the music and what we do.
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We age not by holding on to youth, but by letting ourselves grow and embracing whatever youthful parts remain.
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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 cool, you don’t know nothing about it. It just is, or you ain’t.
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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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Rock and roll ain’t nothing but jazz with a hard backbeat.
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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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It might appear that nothing is happening, but that’s actually when it really happens.
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I don’t regret nothing.
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True friends. Hardest thing to find, but you never look for them – they found you ; you just grow into each other
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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.
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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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I look for ambiguity when I’m writing because life is ambiguous.
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Anything you throw yourself into, you better get yourself out of.
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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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