One minute I’m standing at Ronnie Scott’s getting a standing ovation and the next minute, I’m on a marble slab
KEITH RICHARDSI don’t wave a flag for anything. I’m a musician.
More Keith Richards Quotes
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The Stones in a club is still the ultimate rush.
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One of the great things about songwrighting; it’s not an intellectual experience.
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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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Music works in mysterious ways. Once it goes in you have no idea what it can do to you.
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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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You’ve got the sun, you’ve got the moon, and you’ve got the Rolling Stones.
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I’ve never had my hair cut by anybody, I do it all myself.
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Guitar is easy, all it takes is 5 fingers, 6 strings and 1 a**hole.
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I have no idea what the audience makes of me.
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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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To me, the main thing about living on this planet is to know who the hell you are and be real about it. That’s the reason I’m still alive.
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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’m free of hypochondria– although I’ve got everything else.
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I don’t wave a flag for anything. I’m a musician.
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I personally believe that most people that play an instrument would be able to write a few songs here and there. But they say, “I tried, I can’t do it” and give up and don’t try it again; they get too discouraged.
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