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.
KEITH RICHARDSBut I’ve always felt very comfortable on stage, even if I screw up. It always felt like a dog, this is my turf, piss around it. While I’m here, nothing else can happen. All I can do is screw up. Otherwise, have a good time.
More Keith Richards Quotes
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To make a rock’n’roll record, technology is the least important thing.
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Preaching is tax free. Very little to do with God, a lot to do with money.
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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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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 only get ill when I give up drugs. I don’t have a drug problem, I have a police problem.
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Music works in mysterious ways. Once it goes in you have no idea what it can do to you.
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If you’re going to kick authority in the teeth, you might as well use both feet.
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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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It’s a privilege just to wake up to a new day.
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I never plan anything, which is probably the difference between Mick and myself. Mick needs to know what he’s gonna do tomorrow and I’m just happy to wake up to see who’s hanging around. Mick’s rock and I’m roll.
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If you say I’m great, thank you very much. But I know what I am. I could be better, man, you know?
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Music is a language that doesn’t speak in particular words. It speaks in emotions, and if it’s in the bones, it’s in the bones.
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[John] Belushi was an extreme experience even by my standards.
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My life is full of broken halos.
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Rock and roll ain’t nothing but jazz with a hard backbeat.
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