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.
KEITH RICHARDSYou get onstage and make other people feel happy. Make them feel good.
More Keith Richards Quotes
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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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The idea of retiring is like killing yourself. It’s almost like Hari Kari. I intend to live to a 100 and go down in history.
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I never sleep alone. If there is no one to sleep next to, I’ll sleep next to a stuffed animal. It makes me feel secure and safe. It’s a little embarrassing to admit it; I’m an old man now. It’s important to me though.
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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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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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You know, the BBC had not been particularly generous in its deliverance of blues and esoteric kinds of music.
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Love has sold more songs than you’ve had hot dinners.
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One minute I’m standing at Ronnie Scott’s getting a standing ovation and the next minute, I’m on a marble slab
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Everybody’s got a different way of telling a story – and has different stories to tell.
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If you’re cool, you don’t know nothing about it. It just is, or you ain’t.
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Songwriting’s a weird game.
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A painter’s got a canvas. The writer’s got reams of empty paper. A musician has silence.
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I’ve got nothing against daylight. I don’t live totally nocturnally. Only when I feel like it. Which is most of the time.
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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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To a musician or songwriter, your canvas is silence.
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