If you don’t know the blues there’s no point in picking up the guitar and playing rock and roll or any other form of popular music.
KEITH RICHARDSI personally believe that most people that play an instrument would be able to write a few songs here and there. But they say, “I tried, I can’t do it” and give up and don’t try it again; they get too discouraged.
More Keith Richards Quotes
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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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I’m all for a quiet life. I just didn’t get one.
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I never plan anything, which is probably the difference between Mick and myself. Mick needs to know what he’s gonna do tomorrow and I’m just happy to wake up to see who’s hanging around. Mick’s rock and I’m roll.
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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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It might appear that nothing is happening, but that’s actually when it really happens.
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The public library is the great equaliser.
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To make a rock’n’roll record, technology is the least important thing.
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What’s the big deal about still working? Retirement age is sixty-five, and that’s at a normal job – and I ain’t there yet.
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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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To me, the main thing about living on this planet is to know who the hell you are and be real about it. That’s the reason I’m still alive.
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Everyone talks about rock these days; the problem is they forget about the roll.
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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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The Stones in a club is still the ultimate rush.
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I haven’t stopped smoking; anything.
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When you are growing up there are two institutional places that affect you most powerfully: the church, which belongs to God, and the public library, which belongs to you.
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