When I listen to what I did under the influence – 10 years of work – I don’t think it either enhanced or impaired me. It didn’t have that much to do with it.
KEITH RICHARDSYou get onstage and make other people feel happy. Make them feel good.
More Keith Richards Quotes
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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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Nobody wants to get old, but nobody wants to die young either.
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I have no idea what the audience makes of me.
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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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Let me be clear about this. I don’t have a drug problem. I have a police problem.
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You don’t find a style. A style finds you.
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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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When you’re 20, you can’t imagine being 30. When you’re 30, you can’t imagine being 40. When you’re 40, you can’t imagine being 100.
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Rock and roll ain’t nothing but jazz with a hard backbeat.
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But I’ve always felt very comfortable on stage, even if I screw up. It always felt like a dog, this is my turf, piss around it. While I’m here, nothing else can happen. All I can do is screw up. Otherwise, have a good time.
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True friends. Hardest thing to find, but you never look for them – they found you ; you just grow into each other
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I achieved everything I wanted to achieve by being in the Rolling Stones and making records.
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Why would you want to be anything else if you’re Mick Jagger?
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I don’t wave a flag for anything. I’m a musician.
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One of the great things about songwrighting; it’s not an intellectual experience.
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