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.
KEITH RICHARDSI only get ill when I give up drugs. I don’t have a drug problem, I have a police problem.
More Keith Richards Quotes
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Preaching is tax free. Very little to do with God, a lot to do with money.
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Anything you throw yourself into, you better get yourself out of.
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I’m all for a quiet life. I just didn’t get one.
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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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Love has sold more songs than you’ve had hot dinners.
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Why would you want to be anything else if you’re Mick Jagger?
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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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We age not by holding on to youth, but by letting ourselves grow and embracing whatever youthful parts remain.
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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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You can’t accuse me of anything I haven’t already confessed to.
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Some things get better with age. Like me.
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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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To me, life is a wild animal. You hope to deal with it when it leaps at you.
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It’s great to be here. It’s great to be anywhere.
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I look for ambiguity when I’m writing because life is ambiguous.
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