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.
KEITH RICHARDSI don’t encourage anybody to do what I do, you know? Why should you? More for me!
More Keith Richards Quotes
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No broken hearts, no broken necks.
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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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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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Some people think I’m a mythical genius, others think I’m a junkie madman.
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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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Everybody starts by imitating their heroes. For me it was Chuck Berry and Muddy Waters.
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I achieved everything I wanted to achieve by being in the Rolling Stones and making records.
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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 me, life is a wild animal. You hope to deal with it when it leaps at you.
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I am not doing it just for the money or for you. I am doing it for 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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I don’t trust doctors. It’s not to say there ain’t some good ones, but on a general level, no, I wouldn’t trust ’em at all.
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I have no idea what the audience makes of me.
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The Stones in a club is still the ultimate rush.
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I looked upon myself, in a sort of romantic and silly way, as like a laboratory.
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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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Nobody wants to get old, but nobody wants to die young either.
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It’s great to be here. It’s great to be anywhere.
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The electric guitar was vital in helping what I’ve achieved where would I be without it? Playing awfully quietly, for a start.
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It’s an addiction and addiction is something I should know something about.
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You can’t accuse me of anything I haven’t already confessed to.
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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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My life is full of broken halos.
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But I’m not here just to make records and money. I’m here to say something and to touch other people, sometimes in a cry of desperation: “Do you know this feeling?
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I haven’t stopped smoking; anything.
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To me, the main thing about living on this planet is to know who the hell you are and be real about it. That’s the reason I’m still alive.
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