It’s an addiction and addiction is something I should know something about.
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 stay up, you get the songs that everyone else misses because they’re asleep.
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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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Songwriting’s a weird game.
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Preaching is tax free. Very little to do with God, a lot to do with money.
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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 haven’t stopped smoking; anything.
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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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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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I don’t encourage anybody to do what I do, you know? Why should you? More for me!
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Rock and roll ain’t nothing but jazz with a hard backbeat.
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To me, my biggest fear is getting a big head, and that is when I get the hammer. Because it’s very easy in this game to believe you’re something special.
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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 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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Everybody starts by imitating their heroes. For me it was Chuck Berry and Muddy Waters.
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I’m not getting old I’m evolving.
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