You see, to me, the art of music is listening to it, not playing it. The real art of it is hearing it.
KEITH RICHARDSIf you’ve gotta think about being cool, you ain’t cool.
More Keith Richards Quotes
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It’s great to be here. It’s great to be anywhere.
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I’m free of hypochondria– although I’ve got everything else.
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My life is full of broken halos.
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Guitar is easy, all it takes is 5 fingers, 6 strings and 1 a**hole.
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Anything you throw yourself into, you better get yourself out of.
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I personally believe that most people that play an instrument would be able to write a few songs here and there. But they say, “I tried, I can’t do it” and give up and don’t try it again; they get too discouraged.
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Everybody thinks you reach a certain age and you’re a grownup, but it’s not true. Nobody grows up until the day they croak.
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And then I think we realized, like any young guys, that blues are not learned in a monastery. You’ve got to go out there and get your heart broke and then come back and then you can sing the blues.
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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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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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Everybody starts by imitating their heroes. For me it was Chuck Berry and Muddy Waters.
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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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If you stay up, you get the songs that everyone else misses because they’re asleep.
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I look for ambiguity when I’m writing because life is ambiguous.
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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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