Love has sold more songs than you’ve had hot dinners.
KEITH RICHARDSI have no idea what the audience makes of me.
More Keith Richards Quotes
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One of the great things about songwrighting; it’s not an intellectual experience.
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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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What is life but playing with time?
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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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My life is full of broken halos.
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When I listen to what I did under the influence – 10 years of work – I don’t think it either enhanced or impaired me. It didn’t have that much to do with it.
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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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No broken hearts, no broken necks.
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What’s the big deal about still working? Retirement age is sixty-five, and that’s at a normal job – and I ain’t there yet.
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Some things get better with age. Like me.
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You know, the BBC had not been particularly generous in its deliverance of blues and esoteric kinds of music.
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If you’re cool, you don’t know nothing about it. It just is, or you ain’t.
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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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We age not by holding on to youth, but by letting ourselves grow and embracing whatever youthful parts remain.
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Rock and roll ain’t nothing but jazz with a hard backbeat.
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