Keith Richards Quotes
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And it was a very, very fruitful and great relationship between the Stones and The Beatles. It was very, very friendly.
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I wouldn't warm to Chuck Berry even if I was cremated next to him.
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I only get ill when I give up drugs...
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My life is full of broken halos.
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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 looked upon myself, in a sort of romantic and silly way, as like a laboratory.
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What is it that makes you want to write songs? In a way you want to stretch yourself into other people’s hearts. You want to plant yourself there, or at least get a resonance, where other people become a bigger instrument than the one you’re playing. It becomes almost an obsession to touch other people. To write a song that is remembered and taken to heart is a connection, a touching of bases. A thread that runs through all of us. A stab to the heart. Sometimes I think songwriting is about tightening the heartstrings as much as possible without bringing on a heart attack.
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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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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 only get ill when I give up drugs... I don't have a drug problem, I have a police problem.
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Some people think I'm a mythical genius, others think I'm a junkie madman.
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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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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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Everybody thinks you reach a certain age and you're a grownup, but it's not true. Nobody grows up until the day they croak.
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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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Art is the last thing I'm worried about when I'm writing a song. As far as I'm concerned, art is just short for 'Arthur.'
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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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To me, life is a wild animal. You hope to deal with it when it leaps at you.
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One of the great things about songwrighting; it's not an intellectual experience
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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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You can't accuse me of anything I haven't already confessed to.
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No broken hearts, no broken necks.
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Women are a beautiful complication, and I look forward to far more beauties and far more complications.