If you stay up, you get the songs that everyone else misses because they’re asleep.
KEITH RICHARDSYou see, to me, the art of music is listening to it, not playing it. The real art of it is hearing it.
More Keith Richards Quotes
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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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I only get ill when I give up drugs. I don’t have a drug problem, I have a police problem.
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We all have our own personal laboratories. Life is an experiment, and it’s just a matter of getting the alchemical or chemical combination right.
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I have no idea what the audience makes of me.
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No broken hearts, no broken necks.
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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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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 mean, give me a guitar, give me a piano, give me a broom and string, I wouldn’t get bored anywhere.
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George Jones is a national treasure and should be treated accordingly. A unique style so often emulated even inadvertently.
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The rock’s easy, but the roll is another thing.
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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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It’s an addiction and addiction is something I should know something about.
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Everybody starts by imitating their heroes. For me it was Chuck Berry and Muddy Waters.
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Why would you want to be anything else if you’re Mick Jagger?
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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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