It might appear that nothing is happening, but that’s actually when it really happens.
KEITH RICHARDSI achieved everything I wanted to achieve by being in the Rolling Stones and making records.
More Keith Richards Quotes
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Everyone talks about rock these days; the problem is they forget about the roll.
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I mean some doctor told me I had six months to live and I went to their funeral.
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I achieved everything I wanted to achieve by being in the Rolling Stones and making records.
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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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When you’re 20, you can’t imagine being 30. When you’re 30, you can’t imagine being 40. When you’re 40, you can’t imagine being 100.
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Some people think I’m a mythical genius, others think I’m a junkie madman.
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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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Whatever side I take, I know well that I will be blamed.
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Fame has killed more very talented guys than drugs. Jimi Hendrix didn’t die of an overdose, he died of fame.
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I looked upon myself, in a sort of romantic and silly way, as like a laboratory.
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You get onstage and make other people feel happy. Make them feel good.
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Anything you throw yourself into, you better get yourself out of.
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Poison’s not bad. It’s a matter of how much.
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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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I’ve never turned blue in someone else’s bathroom. I consider that the height of bad manners.
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