Keith Richards Quotes
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Guitar is easy, all it takes is 5 fingers, 6 strings and 1 a**hole...
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I wouldn't warm to Chuck Berry even if I was cremated next to him.
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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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To a musician or songwriter, your canvas is silence.
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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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Some people think I'm a mythical genius, others think I'm a junkie madman.
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My life is full of broken halos.
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I'm not getting old I'm evolving.
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Hey, we just enjoy it. I think we think we're getting the hang of this thing, you know?
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One guy can ruin an instrument. Jimi Hendrix, bless his heart - how I wish he was still around - almost inadvertently ruined guitar. Because he was the only cat who could do it like that. Everybody else just screwed it up, and thought wailing away (on the guitar) is the answer. But it ain't; you've got to be a Jimi to do that, you've got to be one of the special cats.
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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've got nothing against daylight. I don't live totally nocturnally. Only when I feel like it. Which is most of the time.
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There's a certain moment when you realize that you've actually just left the planet for a bit and that nobody can touch you. . .When it works, baby, you've got wings.
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Well, I'm not putting death on the agenda. I don't want to see my old friend Lucifer just yet. He's the guy I'm gonna see, isn't it? I'm not going to the Other Place, let's face it.
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Rock and roll ain't nothing but jazz with a hard backbeat.
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Let me be clear about this. I don't have a drug problem. I have a police problem.
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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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The Stones in a club is still the ultimate rush.
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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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You can't accuse me of anything I haven't already confessed to.
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And then I think we realized, like any young guys, that blues are not learned in a monastery. You've got to go out there and get your heart broke and then come back and then you can sing the blues.
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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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A gut-string classical Spanish guitar, a sweet, lovely little lady. The smell of it. Even now, to open a guitar case, when it's an old wooden guitar, I could crawl in and close the lid.
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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.