Keith Richards Quotes - Page 6

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• I don't like to go into the studio with all the songs worked out and planned before hand ... you've got to give the band something to use its imagination on as well. That can make a very ordinary song come alive into something totally different ... the X-factor - so important in rock and roll - which is the feel.

  Keith Richards

  Music, Song, Rocks

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• If you stay up, you get the songs that everyone else misses because they're asleep.

  Keith Richards

  Song, Missing, Ifs

  "Keith Richards Calls Mick Jagger 'Unbearable' in New Book". www.foxnews.com. October 16, 2010.

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• Love has sold more songs than you've had hot dinners.

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  Song, Hot, Dinner

  Keith Richards (2010). “Life”, p.352, Hachette UK

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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.

  Keith Richards

  Sweet, Guitar, Smell

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• I wouldn't warm to [Chuck Berry] even if I was cremated next to him.

  Keith Richards

  Berries, Next, Chuck

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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?'

  Keith Richards

  Weed, Dad, Kids

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• Its called a playground, but its nearer to a battlefield. It can be brutal

  Keith Richards

  Brutal, Playgrounds, Battlefields

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• You didn't know whether Chuck Berry was black or white - it was not a concern.

  Keith Richards

  White, Black, Berries

  "'I loved rock'n'roll - but then we found the blues'" by Keith Richards, www.theguardian.com. April 30, 2009.

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• Before Elvis, everything was in black and white. Then came Elvis. Zoom, glorious Technicolor.

  Keith Richards

  Black And White, Zoom, Glorious

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• From the 12th Congressional District Hopeful William Jefferson Clinton during the Nixon investigations.
  I wanted to share some information I've turned up regarding two of your Clinton quotes.

  Keith Richards

  Two, Hopeful, Presidential

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• I've always been suspicious of TV, I've always found music and video to be an unhappy marriage.

  Keith Richards

  Marriage, Atheism, Unhappy

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• It's called the mysterious rhythm of life, ... I can't quite account for it. It's probably an addiction, quite honestly. I need that shot of stage every two or three years.

  Keith Richards

  Rhythm Of Life, Years, Two

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• You don't start to play your guitar thinking you're going to be running an organisation that will maybe generate millions.

  Keith Richards

  Running, Thinking, Guitar

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". labs.imdb.com.

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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.

  Keith Richards

  Interesting, Guy, Old Friends

  "Keith Richards: 'Mick Jagger has been unbearable since 1980s'" by Andy Bloxham, www.telegraph.co.uk. October 15, 2010.

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• Another thing to do with the blues is how they were recorded. They were done on the quick, and some of that stuff was made on wire, not even tape, let alone digital.

  Keith Richards

  Wire, Tape, Done

  "'I loved rock'n'roll - but then we found the blues'" by Keith Richards, www.theguardian.com. April 30, 2009.

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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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  Thinking, Hey, Enjoy

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• Rock n Roll is music from the neck down.

  Keith Richards

  Rocks, Rock N Roll, Necks

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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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  Baby, Wings, Realizing

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• It's really good to be here and as I always say, it's really good to be anywhere!

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• The big rules of knife fighting are (a) do not try it at home, and (b) the whole point is never, ever use the blade. It is there to distract your opponent. While he stares at the gleaming steel, you kick his balls to kingdom come--he's all yours. Just a tip!

  Keith Richards

  Home, Fighting, Knives

  Keith Richards (2010). “Life”, p.241, Hachette UK

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• I'd play whenever I could get my hands on an electric guitar; I was trying to pick up rock'n'roll riffs and electric blues - the latest Muddy Waters. I'd spend hours and hours on the same track, back again, and back again.

  Keith Richards

  Rocks, Guitar, Hands

  "The Guitar Handbook". Book by Alastair M. Crawford, Isaac Guillory, and Ralph Denyer, 1982.

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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.

  Keith Richards

  Song, Guitar, Track

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• There's no substitute for live work to keep a band together.

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  Together, Band, Substitutes

  "Excerpt: New book chronicles Keith Richards interviews". Interview with Whitney Matheson, www.usatoday.com. September 09, 2013.

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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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  Friendly, Stones, Great Relationship

  "The Rolling Stones' Keith Richards Looks Back At 'Life'". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. October 25, 2010.

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• The only new technology that interests me is when it sort of throws me back soundwise. And I can think, "Wow, that means I can go onstage and sound like Scotty Moore now and again!"

  Keith Richards

  Mean, Technology, Thinking

  "Excerpt: New book chronicles Keith Richards interviews". Interview with Whitney Matheson, www.usatoday.com. September 9, 2013.

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