The only things Mick and I disagree about is the band, the music and what we do.
KEITH RICHARDSOne of the great things about songwrighting; it’s not an intellectual experience.
More Keith Richards Quotes
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It’s a privilege just to wake up to a new day.
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I’m free of hypochondria– although I’ve got everything else.
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The rock’s easy, but the roll is another thing.
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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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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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I’ve never had my hair cut by anybody, I do it all myself.
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We all have our own personal laboratories. Life is an experiment, and it’s just a matter of getting the alchemical or chemical combination right.
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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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Rock and roll ain’t nothing but jazz with a hard backbeat.
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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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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’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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It’s great to be here. It’s great to be anywhere.
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Women are a beautiful complication, and I look forward to far more beauties and far more complications.
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I achieved everything I wanted to achieve by being in the Rolling Stones and making records.
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