You see, to me, the art of music is listening to it, not playing it. The real art of it is hearing it.
KEITH RICHARDSI’ve never turned blue in someone else’s bathroom. I consider that the height of bad manners.
More Keith Richards Quotes
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If you’ve gotta think about being cool, you ain’t cool.
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What’s the big deal about still working? Retirement age is sixty-five, and that’s at a normal job – and I ain’t there yet.
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I achieved everything I wanted to achieve by being in the Rolling Stones and making records.
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[John] Belushi was an extreme experience even by my standards.
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I haven’t stopped smoking; anything.
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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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The Stones in a club is still the ultimate rush.
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Poison’s not bad. It’s a matter of how much.
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Love has sold more songs than you’ve had hot dinners.
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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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When you are growing up there are two institutional places that affect you most powerfully: the church, which belongs to God, and the public library, which belongs to you.
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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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When I listen to what I did under the influence – 10 years of work – I don’t think it either enhanced or impaired me. It didn’t have that much to do with it.
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Everyone talks about rock these days; the problem is they forget about the roll.
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Why would you want to be anything else if you’re Mick Jagger?
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