Everybody starts by imitating their heroes. For me it was Chuck Berry and Muddy Waters.
KEITH RICHARDSLove has sold more songs than you’ve had hot dinners.
More Keith Richards Quotes
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Some things get better with age. Like me.
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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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To me, the main thing about living on this planet is to know who the hell you are and be real about it. That’s the reason I’m still alive.
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If you’re cool, you don’t know nothing about it. It just is, or you ain’t.
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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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It’s an addiction and addiction is something I should know something about.
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I consider my job [being a musician] is to have a little idea and nurture it and put it in some form that everybody else can understand and then sort of pass it on. It’s really a passing through. In other words, you receive and you transmit.
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I was number 1 on the who’s likely to die list for 10 years. I was really disappointed when I fell off that list.
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Anything you throw yourself into, you better get yourself out of.
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If you say I’m great, thank you very much. But I know what I am. I could be better, man, you know?
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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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You know, the BBC had not been particularly generous in its deliverance of blues and esoteric kinds of music.
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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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If you stay up, you get the songs that everyone else misses because they’re asleep.
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Nobody wants to get old, but nobody wants to die young either.
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