You get onstage and make other people feel happy. Make them feel good.
KEITH RICHARDSI’m free of hypochondria– although I’ve got everything else.
More Keith Richards Quotes
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It’s one thing to play a Muddy Waters song. It’s another thing to play with him.
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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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You know, the BBC had not been particularly generous in its deliverance of blues and esoteric kinds of music.
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I was number 1 on the who’s likely to die list for 10 years. I was really disappointed when I fell off that list.
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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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Poison’s not bad. It’s a matter of how much.
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Women are a beautiful complication, and I look forward to far more beauties and far more complications.
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The Stones in a club is still the ultimate rush.
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If you stay up, you get the songs that everyone else misses because they’re asleep.
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Songwriting’s a weird game.
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I mean, give me a guitar, give me a piano, give me a broom and string, I wouldn’t get bored anywhere.
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My father. I snorted my father. He was cremated and I couldn’t resist grinding him up with a little bit of blow.
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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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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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To a musician or songwriter, your canvas is silence.
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