Keith Richards Quotes
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You get onstage and make other people feel happy. Make them feel good.
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My father. I snorted my father. He was cremated and I couldn't resist grinding him up with a little bit of blow.
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But I've always felt very comfortable on stage, even if I screw up. It always felt like a dog, this is my turf, piss around it. While I'm here, nothing else can happen. All I can do is screw up. Otherwise, have a good time.
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I can sustain the impetus over the long tours we do is by feeding off the energy that we get back from an audience. That's my fuel. All i've got is this burning energy, especially when i've got a guitar in my hands.
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The electric guitar was vital in helping what I've achieved where would I be without it? Playing awfully quietly, for a start.
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I thought it was ludicrous to take one of those gongs from the establishment...it's not what the Stones is about, is it? I don't want to step out on stage with someone wearing a fucking coronet and sporting the old ermine. I told Mick, It's a fucking paltry honour.
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I never thought I was wasted, but I probably was.
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Music is a language that doesn’t speak in particular words. It speaks in emotions, and if it’s in the bones, it’s in the bones.
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Whatever side I take, I know well that I will be blamed.
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Guitar is easy, all it takes is 5 fingers, 6 strings and 1 a**hole...
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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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Nobody wants to get old, but nobody wants to die young either.
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When you're 20, you can't imagine being 30. When you're 30, you can't imagine being 40. When you're 40, you can't imagine being 100.
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Love has sold more songs than you've had hot dinners.
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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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The rock's easy, but the roll is another thing.
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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'm free of hypochondria-- although I've got everything else.
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Preaching is tax free. Very little to do with God, a lot to do with money...
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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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There's something beautifully friendly and elevating about a bunch of guys playing music together. This wonderful little world that is unassailable. It's really teamwork, one guy supporting the others, and it's all for one purpose, and there's no flies in the ointment, for a while. And nobody conducting, it's all up to you. It's really jazz__that's the big secret. Rock and roll ain't nothing but jazz with a hard backbeat.
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To a musician or songwriter, your canvas is silence.
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To me, it's important to prove that this isn't just teenage kids' s**t and you should feel embarrassed when you're over forty and still doing it.
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I'm not getting old I'm evolving.