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 RICHARDSI have no idea what the audience makes of me.
More Keith Richards Quotes
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Retire? I can’t spell the word. I’d play in a wheelchair.
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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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Rock and Roll: Music for the neck downwards.
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It might appear that nothing is happening, but that’s actually when it really happens.
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It’s an addiction and addiction is something I should know something about.
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What Muddy Waters did for us is what we should do for others. It’s the old thing, what you want written on your tombstone as a musician: ‘He passed it on.’
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I’m an unpure purist, something like that.
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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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If you are going to get wasted, then get wasted elegantly.
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I’ve never had my hair cut by anybody, I do it all myself.
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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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I’ve never had a problem with drugs. I’ve had problems with the police.
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Preaching is tax free. Very little to do with God, a lot to do with money.
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Guitar is easy, all it takes is 5 fingers, 6 strings and 1 a**hole.
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You can’t accuse me of anything I haven’t already confessed to.
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