The rock’s easy, but the roll is another thing.
KEITH RICHARDSTo me, life is a wild animal. You hope to deal with it when it leaps at you.
More Keith Richards Quotes
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Everybody starts by imitating their heroes. For me it was Chuck Berry and Muddy Waters.
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I never plan anything, which is probably the difference between Mick and myself. Mick needs to know what he’s gonna do tomorrow and I’m just happy to wake up to see who’s hanging around. Mick’s rock and I’m roll.
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Anything you throw yourself into, you better get yourself out of.
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But I’m not here just to make records and money. I’m here to say something and to touch other people, sometimes in a cry of desperation: “Do you know this feeling?
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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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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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Everyone talks about rock these days; the problem is they forget about the roll.
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I haven’t stopped smoking; anything.
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Poison’s not bad. It’s a matter of how much.
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I like it here in Austin. Anybody got a room?
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You know, the BBC had not been particularly generous in its deliverance of blues and esoteric kinds of music.
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One minute I’m standing at Ronnie Scott’s getting a standing ovation and the next minute, I’m on a marble slab
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My father. I snorted my father. He was cremated and I couldn’t resist grinding him up with a little bit of blow.
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You can’t accuse me of anything I haven’t already confessed to.
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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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