But I’ve always felt very comfortable on stage, even if I screw up. It always felt like a dog, this is my turf, piss around it. While I’m here, nothing else can happen. All I can do is screw up. Otherwise, have a good time.
KEITH RICHARDSOne of the great things about songwrighting; it’s not an intellectual experience.
More Keith Richards Quotes
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The Stones in a club is still the ultimate rush.
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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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What is life but playing with time?
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Rock and roll ain’t nothing but jazz with a hard backbeat.
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If you stay up, you get the songs that everyone else misses because they’re asleep.
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I read the Bible sometimes, but it bores me to death. I just want to know what other people find so bloody fascinating.
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It’s one thing to play a Muddy Waters song. It’s another thing to play with him.
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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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Whatever side I take, I know well that I will be blamed.
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Everybody starts by imitating their heroes. For me it was Chuck Berry and Muddy Waters.
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Everyone talks about rock these days; the problem is they forget about the roll.
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I’m an unpure purist, something like that.
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Why would you want to be anything else if you’re Mick Jagger?
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Songwriting’s a weird game.
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If you’re cool, you don’t know nothing about it. It just is, or you ain’t.
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