You see, to me, the art of music is listening to it, not playing it. The real art of it is hearing it.
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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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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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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Music is a necessity. After food, air, water and warmth, music is the next necessity of life.
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Why would you want to be anything else if you’re Mick Jagger?
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I only get ill when I give up drugs. I don’t have a drug problem, I have a police problem.
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I’m all for a quiet life. I just didn’t get one.
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[John] Belushi was an extreme experience even by my standards.
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Everybody thinks you reach a certain age and you’re a grownup, but it’s not true. Nobody grows up until the day they croak.
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If you’ve gotta think about being cool, you ain’t cool.
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Yes, I’ve been trepanned. That’s quite an interesting experience, especially for my brain surgeon, who saw my thoughts flying around in my brain.
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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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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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We age not by holding on to youth, but by letting ourselves grow and embracing whatever youthful parts remain.
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Let me be clear about this. I don’t have a drug problem. I have a police problem.
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Some things get better with age. Like me.
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