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.
KEITH RICHARDSIt’s great to be here. It’s great to be anywhere.
More Keith Richards Quotes
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It’s a privilege just to wake up to a new day.
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Music is a necessity. After food, air, water and warmth, music is the next necessity of life.
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You see, to me, the art of music is listening to it, not playing it. The real art of it is hearing it.
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You can’t accuse me of anything I haven’t already confessed to.
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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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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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I’ve never had inner turmoil about all this. You find a lot of people these days who cannot stand to be alone. You could lock me up in solitary for weeks on end, and I’d keep myself amused.
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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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If you’ve gotta think about being cool, you ain’t cool.
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I’m an unpure purist, something like that.
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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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Music works in mysterious ways. Once it goes in you have no idea what it can do to you.
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I’m free of hypochondria– although I’ve got everything else.
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Retire? I can’t spell the word. I’d play in a wheelchair.
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Why would you want to be anything else if you’re Mick Jagger?
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