If you stay up, you get the songs that everyone else misses because they’re asleep.
KEITH RICHARDSThe Stones in a club is still the ultimate rush.
More Keith Richards Quotes
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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 don’t trust doctors. It’s not to say there ain’t some good ones, but on a general level, no, I wouldn’t trust ’em at all.
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What’s the big deal about still working? Retirement age is sixty-five, and that’s at a normal job – and I ain’t there yet.
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You get onstage and make other people feel happy. Make them feel good.
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One of the great things about songwrighting; it’s not an intellectual experience.
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I was number 1 on the who’s likely to die list for 10 years. I was really disappointed when I fell off that list.
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Preaching is tax free. Very little to do with God, a lot to do with money.
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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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Women are a beautiful complication, and I look forward to far more beauties and far more complications.
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I’ve never had a problem with drugs. I’ve had problems with the police.
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Guitar is easy, all it takes is 5 fingers, 6 strings and 1 a**hole.
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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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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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A painter’s got a canvas. The writer’s got reams of empty paper. A musician has silence.
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Yes, I’ve been trepanned. That’s quite an interesting experience, especially for my brain surgeon, who saw my thoughts flying around in my brain.
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I looked upon myself, in a sort of romantic and silly way, as like a laboratory.
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Rock and roll ain’t nothing but jazz with a hard backbeat.
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We all have our own personal laboratories. Life is an experiment, and it’s just a matter of getting the alchemical or chemical combination right.
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I’m not getting old I’m evolving.
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If you’re going to kick authority in the teeth, you might as well use both feet.
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I haven’t stopped smoking; anything.
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Everyone talks about rock these days; the problem is they forget about the roll.
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I’m an unpure purist, something like that.
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I’m all for a quiet life. I just didn’t get one.
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Love has sold more songs than you’ve had hot dinners.
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