Rock and roll ain’t nothing but jazz with a hard backbeat.
KEITH RICHARDSI looked upon myself, in a sort of romantic and silly way, as like a laboratory.
More Keith Richards Quotes
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You see, to me, the art of music is listening to it, not playing it. The real art of it is hearing it.
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Why would you want to be anything else if you’re Mick Jagger?
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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 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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[John] Belushi was an extreme experience even by my standards.
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When you’re 20, you can’t imagine being 30. When you’re 30, you can’t imagine being 40. When you’re 40, you can’t imagine being 100.
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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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You know, the BBC had not been particularly generous in its deliverance of blues and esoteric kinds of music.
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Guitar is easy, all it takes is 5 fingers, 6 strings and 1 a**hole.
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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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You get onstage and make other people feel happy. Make them feel good.
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If you stay up, you get the songs that everyone else misses because they’re asleep.
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Fame has killed more very talented guys than drugs. Jimi Hendrix didn’t die of an overdose, he died of fame.
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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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Music works in mysterious ways. Once it goes in you have no idea what it can do to you.
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