Love has sold more songs than you’ve had hot dinners.
KEITH RICHARDSI am not doing it just for the money or for you. I am doing it for me.
More Keith Richards Quotes
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I haven’t stopped smoking; anything.
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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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Women are a beautiful complication, and I look forward to far more beauties and far more complications.
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If you don’t know the blues there’s no point in picking up the guitar and playing rock and roll or any other form of popular music.
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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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You’ve got the sun, you’ve got the moon, and you’ve got the Rolling Stones.
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I achieved everything I wanted to achieve by being in the Rolling Stones and making records.
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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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Nobody wants to get old, but nobody wants to die young either.
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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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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’m all for a quiet life. I just didn’t get one.
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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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True friends. Hardest thing to find, but you never look for them – they found you ; you just grow into each other
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Songwriting’s a weird game.
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