Songwriting’s a weird game.
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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Everybody’s got a different way of telling a story – and has different stories to tell.
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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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I never thought I was wasted, but I probably was.
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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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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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Let me be clear about this. I don’t have a drug problem. I have a police problem.
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I personally believe that most people that play an instrument would be able to write a few songs here and there. But they say, “I tried, I can’t do it” and give up and don’t try it again; they get too discouraged.
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I don’t encourage anybody to do what I do, you know? Why should you? More for me!
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To me, life is a wild animal. You hope to deal with it when it leaps at you.
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I’m an unpure purist, something like that.
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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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Nobody wants to get old, but nobody wants to die young either.
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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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[John] Belushi was an extreme experience even by my standards.
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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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