You don’t find a style. A style finds you.
KEITH RICHARDSI 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.
More Keith Richards Quotes
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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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If you say I’m great, thank you very much. But I know what I am. I could be better, man, you know?
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You can’t accuse me of anything I haven’t already confessed to.
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Love has sold more songs than you’ve had hot dinners.
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To make a rock’n’roll record, technology is the least important thing.
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I looked upon myself, in a sort of romantic and silly way, as like a laboratory.
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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.
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I don’t encourage anybody to do what I do, you know? Why should you? More for me!
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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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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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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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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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Let me be clear about this. I don’t have a drug problem. I have a police problem.
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No broken hearts, no broken necks.
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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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