The electric guitar was vital in helping what I’ve achieved where would I be without it? Playing awfully quietly, for a start.
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 look for ambiguity when I’m writing because life is ambiguous.
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I achieved everything I wanted to achieve by being in the Rolling Stones and making records.
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I looked upon myself, in a sort of romantic and silly way, as like a laboratory.
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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 get onstage and make other people feel happy. Make them feel good.
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A painter’s got a canvas. The writer’s got reams of empty paper. A musician has silence.
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I don’t regret nothing.
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I 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.
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Guitar is easy, all it takes is 5 fingers, 6 strings and 1 a**hole.
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Songwriting’s a weird game.
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Some things get better with age. Like me.
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[John] Belushi was an extreme experience even by my standards.
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One of the great things about songwrighting; it’s not an intellectual experience.
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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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This is the rock ‘n’ roll life, and you had to invent it as you went along. There was no textbook to say how you operate this machinery.
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