The electric guitar was vital in helping what I’ve achieved where would I be without it? Playing awfully quietly, for a start.
KEITH RICHARDS[John] Belushi was an extreme experience even by my standards.
More Keith Richards Quotes
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I like it here in Austin. Anybody got a room?
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I’ve never had a problem with drugs. I’ve had problems with the police.
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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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The rock’s easy, but the roll is another thing.
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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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To a musician or songwriter, your canvas is silence.
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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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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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If you’re going to kick authority in the teeth, you might as well use both feet.
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Rock and Roll: Music for the neck downwards.
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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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It’s one thing to play a Muddy Waters song. It’s another thing to play with him.
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What is life but playing with time?
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Rock and roll ain’t nothing but jazz with a hard backbeat.
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Love has sold more songs than you’ve had hot dinners.
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