To make a rock’n’roll record, technology is the least important thing.
KEITH RICHARDSAnything you throw yourself into, you better get yourself out of.
More Keith Richards Quotes
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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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One of the great things about songwrighting; it’s not an intellectual experience.
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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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You have the sun, you have the moon, you have the air that you breathe – and you have the Rolling Stones!
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Poison’s not bad. It’s a matter of how much.
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I’ve never turned blue in someone else’s bathroom. I consider that the height of bad manners.
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If you’ve gotta think about being cool, you ain’t cool.
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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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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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It’s an addiction and addiction is something I should know something about.
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To a musician or songwriter, your canvas is silence.
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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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[John] Belushi was an extreme experience even by my standards.
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It’s great to be here. It’s great to be anywhere.
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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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