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.
KEITH RICHARDSTo a musician or songwriter, your canvas is silence.
More Keith Richards Quotes
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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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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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I like it here in Austin. Anybody got a room?
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To make a rock’n’roll record, technology is the least important thing.
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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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Everybody thinks you reach a certain age and you’re a grownup, but it’s not true. Nobody grows up until the day they croak.
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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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Rock and roll ain’t nothing but jazz with a hard backbeat.
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Guitar is easy, all it takes is 5 fingers, 6 strings and 1 a**hole.
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You don’t find a style. A style finds you.
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Why would you want to be anything else if you’re Mick Jagger?
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When you are growing up there are two institutional places that affect you most powerfully: the church, which belongs to God, and the public library, which belongs to you.
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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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The rock’s easy, but the roll is another thing.
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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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