I mean, give me a guitar, give me a piano, give me a broom and string, I wouldn’t get bored anywhere.
KEITH RICHARDSIt’s an addiction and addiction is something I should know something about.
More Keith Richards Quotes
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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 don’t encourage anybody to do what I do, you know? Why should you? More for me!
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I’m an unpure purist, something like that.
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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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Music works in mysterious ways. Once it goes in you have no idea what it can do to you.
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You don’t find a style. A style finds you.
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I’ve never had a problem with drugs. I’ve had problems with the police.
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We age not by holding on to youth, but by letting ourselves grow and embracing whatever youthful parts remain.
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I look for ambiguity when I’m writing because life is ambiguous.
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Rock and roll ain’t nothing but jazz with a hard backbeat.
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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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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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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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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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Guitar is easy, all it takes is 5 fingers, 6 strings and 1 a**hole.
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