Keith Richards Quotes
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I haven't stopped smoking...anything...
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Treat each guitar track-and each song-completely different. For example, if I'm using a certain amp and guitar on one track, I'll deliberately use something else for the next tune or overdub.
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I've never turned blue in someone else's bathroom. I consider that the height of bad manners.
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I am not doing it just for the money or for you.I am doing it for me.
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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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The public library is the great equaliser.
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Music works in mysterious ways. Once it goes in you have no idea what it can do to you.
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It might appear that nothing is happening, but that's actually when it really happens.
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I don't know if people in New York recognize me or not. I'm not really conscious of it. If somebody stops me, then I suddenly realize that people are looking at me, but other times they may be doing it and I don't even know because I'm engrossed in something else.
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Poison's not bad. It's a matter of how much.
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Anything you throw yourself into, you better get yourself out of.
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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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You're sitting with some guys, and you're playing and you go, "Ooh, yeah!" That feeling is worth more than anything. 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. You're elevated because you're with a bunch of guys that want to do the same thing as you. And when it works, baby, you've got wings. You know you've been somewhere most people will never get; you've been to a special place.
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John Belushi was an extreme experience even by my standards.
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Everything they’d been brought up not to do, they could do at a rock-and-roll show.
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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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You see, to me, the art of music is listening to it, not playing it. The real art of it is hearing it.
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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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I'm all for a quiet life. I just didn't get one.
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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 don't regret nuthin.
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In fact, I take the view that God, in his infinite wisdom, didn't bother to spring for two joints - heaven and hell. They're the same place, but heaven is when you get everything you want and you meet Mummy and Daddy and your best friends and you all have a hug and a kiss and play your harps. Hell is the same place - no fire and brimstone - but they just all pass by and don't see you. There's nothing, no recognition. You're waving, “It's me, your father,” but you're invisible. You're on a cloud, you've got your harp, but you can't play with nobody because they don't see you. That's hell.
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Rock n Roll is music from the neck down.
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I don't wave a flag for anything. I'm a musician.