Some things get better with age. Like me.
KEITH RICHARDSWe age not by holding on to youth, but by letting ourselves grow and embracing whatever youthful parts remain.
More Keith Richards Quotes
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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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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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[John] Belushi was an extreme experience even by my standards.
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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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George Jones is a national treasure and should be treated accordingly. A unique style so often emulated even inadvertently.
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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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It’s great to be here. It’s great to be anywhere.
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To me, my biggest fear is getting a big head, and that is when I get the hammer. Because it’s very easy in this game to believe you’re something special.
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Why would you want to be anything else if you’re Mick Jagger?
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If you’re going to kick authority in the teeth, you might as well use both feet.
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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 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 haven’t stopped smoking; anything.
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To make a rock’n’roll record, technology is the least important thing.
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I’ve never had my hair cut by anybody, I do it all myself.
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