I read the Bible sometimes, but it bores me to death. I just want to know what other people find so bloody fascinating.
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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If you stay up, you get the songs that everyone else misses because they’re asleep.
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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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I don’t encourage anybody to do what I do, you know? Why should you? More for me!
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It’s a privilege just to wake up to a new day.
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I mean some doctor told me I had six months to live and I went to their funeral.
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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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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 rock’s easy, but the roll is another thing.
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One of the great things about songwrighting; it’s not an intellectual experience.
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I don’t wave a flag for anything. I’m a musician.
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No broken hearts, no broken necks.
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I never sleep alone. If there is no one to sleep next to, I’ll sleep next to a stuffed animal. It makes me feel secure and safe. It’s a little embarrassing to admit it; I’m an old man now. It’s important to me though.
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Poison’s not bad. It’s a matter of how much.
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You get onstage and make other people feel happy. Make them feel good.
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Some things get better with age. Like me.
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