You have the sun, you have the moon, you have the air that you breathe – and you have the Rolling Stones!
KEITH RICHARDSI’ve never turned blue in someone else’s bathroom. I consider that the height of bad manners.
More Keith Richards Quotes
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I’ve never had a problem with drugs. I’ve had problems with the police.
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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 look for ambiguity when I’m writing because life is ambiguous.
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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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It’s a privilege just to wake up to a new day.
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A painter’s got a canvas. The writer’s got reams of empty paper. A musician has silence.
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One minute I’m standing at Ronnie Scott’s getting a standing ovation and the next minute, I’m on a marble slab
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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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But 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.
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It might appear that nothing is happening, but that’s actually when it really happens.
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I like it here in Austin. Anybody got a room?
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Some people think I’m a mythical genius, others think I’m a junkie madman.
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It’s an addiction and addiction is something I should know something about.
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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 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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