Rock and roll ain’t nothing but jazz with a hard backbeat.
KEITH RICHARDSEverybody starts by imitating their heroes. For me it was Chuck Berry and Muddy Waters.
More Keith Richards Quotes
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The rock’s easy, but the roll is another thing.
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There’s a demon in me, and he’s still around. Without the dope, we have a bit more of a chat these days.
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I’m free of hypochondria– although I’ve got everything else.
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Rock and Roll: Music for the neck downwards.
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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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When I listen to what I did under the influence – 10 years of work – I don’t think it either enhanced or impaired me. It didn’t have that much to do with it.
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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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Music works in mysterious ways. Once it goes in you have no idea what it can do to you.
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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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Preaching is tax free. Very little to do with God, a lot to do with money.
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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 don’t regret nothing.
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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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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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My life is full of broken halos.
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