You know, the BBC had not been particularly generous in its deliverance of blues and esoteric kinds of music.
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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If you stay up, you get the songs that everyone else misses because they’re asleep.
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The public library is the great equaliser.
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Let me be clear about this. I don’t have a drug problem. I have a police problem.
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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 don’t wave a flag for anything. I’m a musician.
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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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To me, life is a wild animal. You hope to deal with it when it leaps at you.
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I don’t trust doctors. It’s not to say there ain’t some good ones, but on a general level, no, I wouldn’t trust ’em at all.
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I looked upon myself, in a sort of romantic and silly way, as like a laboratory.
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I only get ill when I give up drugs. I don’t have a drug problem, I have a police problem.
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Everybody’s got a different way of telling a story – and has different stories to tell.
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I am not doing it just for the money or for you. I am doing it for me.
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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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Rock and roll ain’t nothing but jazz with a hard backbeat.
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I’ve got nothing against daylight. I don’t live totally nocturnally. Only when I feel like it. Which is most of the time.
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