It might appear that nothing is happening, but that’s actually when it really happens.
KEITH RICHARDSSongwriting’s a weird game.
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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Rock and roll ain’t nothing but jazz with a hard backbeat.
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What Muddy Waters did for us is what we should do for others. It’s the old thing, what you want written on your tombstone as a musician: ‘He passed it on.’
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The public library is the great equaliser.
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Preaching is tax free. Very little to do with God, a lot to do with money.
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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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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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Women are a beautiful complication, and I look forward to far more beauties and far more complications.
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Nobody wants to get old, but nobody wants to die young either.
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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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The idea of retiring is like killing yourself. It’s almost like Hari Kari. I intend to live to a 100 and go down in history.
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I looked upon myself, in a sort of romantic and silly way, as like a laboratory.
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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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You see, to me, the art of music is listening to it, not playing it. The real art of it is hearing it.
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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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