Some things get better with age. Like me.
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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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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I’m not getting old I’m evolving.
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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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Some people think I’m a mythical genius, others think I’m a junkie madman.
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Fame has killed more very talented guys than drugs. Jimi Hendrix didn’t die of an overdose, he died of fame.
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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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Poison’s not bad. It’s a matter of how much.
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You know, the BBC had not been particularly generous in its deliverance of blues and esoteric kinds of music.
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My father. I snorted my father. He was cremated and I couldn’t resist grinding him up with a little bit of blow.
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I don’t trust doctors. It’s not to say there ain’t some good ones, but on a general level, no, I wouldn’t trust ’em at all.
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Guitar is easy, all it takes is 5 fingers, 6 strings and 1 a**hole.
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When you are growing up there are two institutional places that affect you most powerfully: the church, which belongs to God, and the public library, which belongs to you.
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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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Let me be clear about this. I don’t have a drug problem. I have a police problem.
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