Songwriting’s a weird game.
KEITH RICHARDSYou don’t find a style. A style finds you.
More Keith Richards Quotes
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[John] Belushi was an extreme experience even by my standards.
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Poison’s not bad. It’s a matter of how much.
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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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If you stay up, you get the songs that everyone else misses because they’re asleep.
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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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My life is full of broken halos.
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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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I’m free of hypochondria– although I’ve got everything else.
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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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Some people think I’m a mythical genius, others think I’m a junkie madman.
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Why would you want to be anything else if you’re Mick Jagger?
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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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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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One of the great things about songwrighting; it’s not an intellectual experience.
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