The rock’s easy, but the roll is another thing.
KEITH RICHARDSIf you stay up, you get the songs that everyone else misses because they’re asleep.
More Keith Richards Quotes
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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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You get onstage and make other people feel happy. Make them feel good.
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Songwriting’s a weird game.
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This is the rock ‘n’ roll life, and you had to invent it as you went along. There was no textbook to say how you operate this machinery.
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George Jones is a national treasure and should be treated accordingly. A unique style so often emulated even inadvertently.
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The electric guitar was vital in helping what I’ve achieved where would I be without it? Playing awfully quietly, for a start.
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Nobody wants to get old, but nobody wants to die young either.
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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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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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One minute I’m standing at Ronnie Scott’s getting a standing ovation and the next minute, I’m on a marble slab
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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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I achieved everything I wanted to achieve by being in the Rolling Stones and making records.
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A painter’s got a canvas. The writer’s got reams of empty paper. A musician has silence.
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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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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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