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.
KEITH RICHARDSTo make a rock’n’roll record, technology is the least important thing.
More Keith Richards Quotes
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No broken hearts, no broken necks.
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I achieved everything I wanted to achieve by being in the Rolling Stones and making records.
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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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The rock’s easy, but the roll is another thing.
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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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I read the Bible sometimes, but it bores me to death. I just want to know what other people find so bloody fascinating.
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Songwriting’s a weird game.
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If you are going to get wasted, then get wasted elegantly.
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Some things get better with age. Like me.
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Whatever side I take, I know well that I will be blamed.
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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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You have the sun, you have the moon, you have the air that you breathe – and you have the Rolling Stones!
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What is life but playing with time?
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I’m free of hypochondria– although I’ve got everything else.
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The idea of retiring is like killing yourself. It’s almost like Hari Kari. I intend to live to a 100 and go down in history.
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