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 RICHARDSYou know, the BBC had not been particularly generous in its deliverance of blues and esoteric kinds of music.
More Keith Richards Quotes
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It might appear that nothing is happening, but that’s actually when it really happens.
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I don’t wave a flag for anything. I’m a musician.
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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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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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Rock and roll ain’t nothing but jazz with a hard backbeat.
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Some people think I’m a mythical genius, others think I’m a junkie madman.
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My life is full of broken halos.
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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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A painter’s got a canvas. The writer’s got reams of empty paper. A musician has silence.
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When you are growing up there are two institutional places that affect you most powerfully: the church, which belongs to God, and the public library, which belongs to you.
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No broken hearts, no broken necks.
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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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You’ve got the sun, you’ve got the moon, and you’ve got the Rolling Stones.
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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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