If you’ve gotta think about being cool, you ain’t cool.
KEITH RICHARDSI was number 1 on the who’s likely to die list for 10 years. I was really disappointed when I fell off that list.
More Keith Richards Quotes
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I’ve never had my hair cut by anybody, I do it all myself.
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Guitar is easy, all it takes is 5 fingers, 6 strings and 1 a**hole.
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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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The electric guitar was vital in helping what I’ve achieved where would I be without it? Playing awfully quietly, for a start.
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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 get onstage and make other people feel happy. Make them feel good.
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It might appear that nothing is happening, but that’s actually when it really happens.
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Love has sold more songs than you’ve had hot dinners.
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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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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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Some people think I’m a mythical genius, others think I’m a junkie madman.
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It’s great to be here. It’s great to be anywhere.
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I mean, give me a guitar, give me a piano, give me a broom and string, I wouldn’t get bored anywhere.
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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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Rock and roll ain’t nothing but jazz with a hard backbeat.
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