Some people think I’m a mythical genius, others think I’m a junkie madman.
KEITH RICHARDSYou’ve got the sun, you’ve got the moon, and you’ve got the Rolling Stones.
More Keith Richards Quotes
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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’ve gotta think about being cool, you ain’t cool.
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This is the rock ‘n’ roll life, and you had to invent it as you went along. There was no textbook to say how you operate this machinery.
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The only things Mick and I disagree about is the band, the music and what we do.
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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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To a musician or songwriter, your canvas is silence.
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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.
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Poison’s not bad. It’s a matter of how much.
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I occasionally borrow pot from my kids. They do a little weed occasionally. ‘Here, Dad’ – or more likely, ‘Dad, have you got any?’
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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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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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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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To me, my biggest fear is getting a big head, and that is when I get the hammer. Because it’s very easy in this game to believe you’re something special.
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