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.
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 don’t find a style. A style finds you.
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I read the Bible sometimes, but it bores me to death. I just want to know what other people find so bloody fascinating.
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The public library is the great equaliser.
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It’s an addiction and addiction is something I should know something about.
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I’m an unpure purist, something like that.
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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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Songwriting’s a weird game.
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I don’t wave a flag for anything. I’m a musician.
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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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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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Everybody starts by imitating their heroes. For me it was Chuck Berry and Muddy Waters.
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I’ve never had my hair cut by anybody, I do it all myself.
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If you stay up, you get the songs that everyone else misses because they’re asleep.
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My life is full of broken halos.
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Music is a language that doesn’t speak in particular words. It speaks in emotions, and if it’s in the bones, it’s in the bones.
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