Everyone talks about rock these days; the problem is they forget about the roll.
KEITH RICHARDSYou’ve got the sun, you’ve got the moon, and you’ve got the Rolling Stones.
More Keith Richards Quotes
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If you don’t know the blues there’s no point in picking up the guitar and playing rock and roll or any other form of popular music.
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I occasionally borrow pot from my kids. They do a little weed occasionally. ‘Here, Dad’ – or more likely, ‘Dad, have you got any?’
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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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Fame has killed more very talented guys than drugs. Jimi Hendrix didn’t die of an overdose, he died of fame.
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To a musician or songwriter, your canvas is silence.
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I haven’t stopped smoking; anything.
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It might appear that nothing is happening, but that’s actually when it really happens.
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I never sleep alone. If there is no one to sleep next to, I’ll sleep next to a stuffed animal. It makes me feel secure and safe. It’s a little embarrassing to admit it; I’m an old man now. It’s important to me though.
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I’m an unpure purist, something like that.
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I’m not getting old I’m evolving.
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Rock and roll ain’t nothing but jazz with a hard backbeat.
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Yes, I’ve been trepanned. That’s quite an interesting experience, especially for my brain surgeon, who saw my thoughts flying around in my brain.
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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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But I’m not here just to make records and money. I’m here to say something and to touch other people, sometimes in a cry of desperation: “Do you know this feeling?
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I mean, give me a guitar, give me a piano, give me a broom and string, I wouldn’t get bored anywhere.
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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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Music works in mysterious ways. Once it goes in you have no idea what it can do to you.
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The electric guitar was vital in helping what I’ve achieved where would I be without it? Playing awfully quietly, for a start.
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If you stay up, you get the songs that everyone else misses because they’re asleep.
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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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I don’t wave a flag for anything. I’m a musician.
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I don’t regret nothing.
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When you’re 20, you can’t imagine being 30. When you’re 30, you can’t imagine being 40. When you’re 40, you can’t imagine being 100.
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I am not doing it just for the money or for you. I am doing it for me.
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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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