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.
KEITH RICHARDSTo a musician or songwriter, your canvas is silence.
More Keith Richards Quotes
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Music is a necessity. After food, air, water and warmth, music is the next necessity of life.
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I mean some doctor told me I had six months to live and I went to their funeral.
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I achieved everything I wanted to achieve by being in the Rolling Stones and making records.
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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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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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Music works in mysterious ways. Once it goes in you have no idea what it can do to you.
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You have the sun, you have the moon, you have the air that you breathe – and you have the Rolling Stones!
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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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Fame has killed more very talented guys than drugs. Jimi Hendrix didn’t die of an overdose, he died of fame.
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I’m not getting old I’m evolving.
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It might appear that nothing is happening, but that’s actually when it really happens.
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To make a rock’n’roll record, technology is the least important thing.
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I don’t encourage anybody to do what I do, you know? Why should you? More for me!
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To a musician or songwriter, your canvas is silence.
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True friends. Hardest thing to find, but you never look for them – they found you ; you just grow into each other
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