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 RICHARDSBut 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.
More Keith Richards Quotes
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You get onstage and make other people feel happy. Make them feel good.
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What is life but playing with time?
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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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What’s the big deal about still working? Retirement age is sixty-five, and that’s at a normal job – and I ain’t there yet.
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Everybody’s got a different way of telling a story – and has different stories to tell.
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It’s a privilege just to wake up to a new day.
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I look for ambiguity when I’m writing because life is ambiguous.
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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 never thought I was wasted, but I probably was.
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But I’m not here just to make records and money. I’m here to say something and to touch other people, sometimes in a cry of desperation: “Do you know this feeling?
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I’ve never had inner turmoil about all this. You find a lot of people these days who cannot stand to be alone. You could lock me up in solitary for weeks on end, and I’d keep myself amused.
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One of the great things about songwrighting; it’s not an intellectual experience.
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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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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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Some things get better with age. Like me.
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