If you’re cool, you don’t know nothing about it. It just is, or you ain’t.
KEITH RICHARDSWe all have our own personal laboratories. Life is an experiment, and it’s just a matter of getting the alchemical or chemical combination right.
More Keith Richards Quotes
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Songwriting’s a weird game.
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The rock’s easy, but the roll is another thing.
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When you are growing up there are two institutional places that affect you most powerfully: the church, which belongs to God, and the public library, which belongs to you.
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I was in awe sometimes listening to Mick Taylor . Everything was there in his playing – the melodic touch, a beautiful sustain and a way of reading a song.
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I haven’t stopped smoking; anything.
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You don’t find a style. A style finds you.
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To make a rock’n’roll record, technology is the least important thing.
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I don’t regret nothing.
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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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This is the rock ‘n’ roll life, and you had to invent it as you went along. There was no textbook to say how you operate this machinery.
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I’ve never had inner turmoil about all this. You find a lot of people these days who cannot stand to be alone. You could lock me up in solitary for weeks on end, and I’d keep myself amused.
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I achieved everything I wanted to achieve by being in the Rolling Stones and making records.
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Rock and Roll: Music for the neck downwards.
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I have no idea what the audience makes of me.
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Poison’s not bad. It’s a matter of how much.
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