Guitar is easy, all it takes is 5 fingers, 6 strings and 1 a**hole.
KEITH RICHARDSI like it here in Austin. Anybody got a room?
More Keith Richards Quotes
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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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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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What is life but playing with time?
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I occasionally borrow pot from my kids. They do a little weed occasionally. ‘Here, Dad’ – or more likely, ‘Dad, have you got any?’
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One minute I’m standing at Ronnie Scott’s getting a standing ovation and the next minute, I’m on a marble slab
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Why would you want to be anything else if you’re Mick Jagger?
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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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I’ve never had my hair cut by anybody, I do it all myself.
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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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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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I never sleep alone. If there is no one to sleep next to, I’ll sleep next to a stuffed animal. It makes me feel secure and safe. It’s a little embarrassing to admit it; I’m an old man now. It’s important to me though.
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I’ve never had a problem with drugs. I’ve had problems with the police.
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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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I mean some doctor told me I had six months to live and I went to their funeral.
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To make a rock’n’roll record, technology is the least important thing.
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