Guitar is easy, all it takes is 5 fingers, 6 strings and 1 a**hole.
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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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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No broken hearts, no broken necks.
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I was in awe sometimes listening to Mick Taylor . Everything was there in his playing – the melodic touch, a beautiful sustain and a way of reading a song.
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Poison’s not bad. It’s a matter of how much.
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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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I am not doing it just for the money or for you. I am doing it for me.
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If you’re cool, you don’t know nothing about it. It just is, or you ain’t.
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Everybody starts by imitating their heroes. For me it was Chuck Berry and Muddy Waters.
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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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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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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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Love has sold more songs than you’ve had hot dinners.
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Whatever side I take, I know well that I will be blamed.
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I haven’t stopped smoking; anything.
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I’m not getting old I’m evolving.
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