One of the great things about songwrighting; it’s not an intellectual experience.
KEITH RICHARDSIf you are going to get wasted, then get wasted elegantly.
More Keith Richards Quotes
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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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You don’t find a style. A style finds you.
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I’ve never had inner turmoil about all this. You find a lot of people these days who cannot stand to be alone. You could lock me up in solitary for weeks on end, and I’d keep myself amused.
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When I listen to what I did under the influence – 10 years of work – I don’t think it either enhanced or impaired me. It didn’t have that much to do with it.
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If you are going to get wasted, then get wasted elegantly.
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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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To a musician or songwriter, your canvas is silence.
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I looked upon myself, in a sort of romantic and silly way, as like a laboratory.
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Preaching is tax free. Very little to do with God, a lot to do with money.
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Why would you want to be anything else if you’re Mick Jagger?
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You get onstage and make other people feel happy. Make them feel good.
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Songwriting’s a weird game.
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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 don’t wave a flag for anything. I’m a musician.
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This is the rock ‘n’ roll life, and you had to invent it as you went along. There was no textbook to say how you operate this machinery.
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