Guitar is easy, all it takes is 5 fingers, 6 strings and 1 a**hole.
KEITH RICHARDSWhat’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.
More Keith Richards Quotes
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I never thought I was wasted, but I probably was.
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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.
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Anything you throw yourself into, you better get yourself out of.
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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 a privilege just to wake up to a new day.
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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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Preaching is tax free. Very little to do with God, a lot to do with money.
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Women are a beautiful complication, and I look forward to far more beauties and far more complications.
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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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Nobody wants to get old, but nobody wants to die young either.
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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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Everybody starts by imitating their heroes. For me it was Chuck Berry and Muddy Waters.
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To me, life is a wild animal. You hope to deal with it when it leaps at you.
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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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Yes, I’ve been trepanned. That’s quite an interesting experience, especially for my brain surgeon, who saw my thoughts flying around in my brain.
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