To a musician or songwriter, your canvas is silence.
KEITH RICHARDSThe electric guitar was vital in helping what I’ve achieved where would I be without it? Playing awfully quietly, for a start.
More Keith Richards Quotes
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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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Love has sold more songs than you’ve had hot dinners.
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I looked upon myself, in a sort of romantic and silly way, as like a laboratory.
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We all have our own personal laboratories. Life is an experiment, and it’s just a matter of getting the alchemical or chemical combination right.
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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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I am not doing it just for the money or for you. I am doing it for me.
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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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It’s great to be here. It’s great to be anywhere.
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What’s the big deal about still working? Retirement age is sixty-five, and that’s at a normal job – and I ain’t there yet.
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Everybody starts by imitating their heroes. For me it was Chuck Berry and Muddy Waters.
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To make a rock’n’roll record, technology is the least important thing.
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The public library is the great equaliser.
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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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I’ve got nothing against daylight. I don’t live totally nocturnally. Only when I feel like it. Which is most of the time.
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Preaching is tax free. Very little to do with God, a lot to do with money.
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