You know, the BBC had not been particularly generous in its deliverance of blues and esoteric kinds of music.
KEITH RICHARDSTo a musician or songwriter, your canvas is silence.
More Keith Richards Quotes
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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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If you say I’m great, thank you very much. But I know what I am. I could be better, man, you know?
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Poison’s not bad. It’s a matter of how much.
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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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One of the great things about songwrighting; it’s not an intellectual experience.
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Why would you want to be anything else if you’re Mick Jagger?
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My life is full of broken halos.
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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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It’s a privilege just to wake up to a new day.
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When I listen to what I did under the influence – 10 years of work – I don’t think it either enhanced or impaired me. It didn’t have that much to do with it.
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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 see, to me, the art of music is listening to it, not playing it. The real art of it is hearing it.
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I looked upon myself, in a sort of romantic and silly way, as like a laboratory.
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Women are a beautiful complication, and I look forward to far more beauties and far more complications.
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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.
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