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.’
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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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 look for ambiguity when I’m writing because life is ambiguous.
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My father. I snorted my father. He was cremated and I couldn’t resist grinding him up with a little bit of blow.
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I’m not getting old I’m evolving.
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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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I looked upon myself, in a sort of romantic and silly way, as like a laboratory.
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It’s one thing to play a Muddy Waters song. It’s another thing to play with him.
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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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Music is a necessity. After food, air, water and warmth, music is the next necessity of life.
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It’s great to be here. It’s great to be anywhere.
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You’ve got the sun, you’ve got the moon, and you’ve got the Rolling Stones.
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Everybody’s got a different way of telling a story – and has different stories to tell.
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I was number 1 on the who’s likely to die list for 10 years. I was really disappointed when I fell off that list.
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You can’t accuse me of anything I haven’t already confessed to.
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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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