If you say I’m great, thank you very much. But I know what I am. I could be better, man, you know?
KEITH RICHARDSI look for ambiguity when I’m writing because life is ambiguous.
More Keith Richards Quotes
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What is life but playing with time?
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To make a rock’n’roll record, technology is the least important thing.
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My life is full of broken halos.
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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 am not doing it just for the money or for you. I am doing it for me.
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One of the great things about songwrighting; it’s not an intellectual experience.
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Anything you throw yourself into, you better get yourself out of.
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Everyone talks about rock these days; the problem is they forget about the roll.
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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’ve never had my hair cut by anybody, I do it all myself.
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I achieved everything I wanted to achieve by being in the Rolling Stones and making records.
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It’s an addiction and addiction is something I should know something about.
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But I’m not here just to make records and money. I’m here to say something and to touch other people, sometimes in a cry of desperation: “Do you know this feeling?
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It might appear that nothing is happening, but that’s actually when it really happens.
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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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