Music works in mysterious ways. Once it goes in you have no idea what it can do to you.
KEITH RICHARDSTo a musician or songwriter, your canvas is silence.
More Keith Richards Quotes
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To make a rock’n’roll record, technology is the least important thing.
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I occasionally borrow pot from my kids. They do a little weed occasionally. ‘Here, Dad’ – or more likely, ‘Dad, have you got any?’
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If you’ve gotta think about being cool, you ain’t cool.
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Some people think I’m a mythical genius, others think I’m a junkie madman.
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My life is full of broken halos.
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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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The public library is the great equaliser.
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To a musician or songwriter, your canvas is silence.
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Anything you throw yourself into, you better get yourself out of.
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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 all have our own personal laboratories. Life is an experiment, and it’s just a matter of getting the alchemical or chemical combination right.
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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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I’ve never had my hair cut by anybody, I do it all myself.
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[John] Belushi was an extreme experience even by my standards.
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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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