If you’re cool, you don’t know nothing about it. It just is, or you ain’t.
KEITH RICHARDSIt’s an addiction and addiction is something I should know something about.
More Keith Richards Quotes
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I’ve got nothing against daylight. I don’t live totally nocturnally. Only when I feel like it. Which is most of the time.
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I like it here in Austin. Anybody got a room?
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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’m free of hypochondria– although I’ve got everything else.
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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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Why would you want to be anything else if you’re Mick Jagger?
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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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If you’ve gotta think about being cool, you ain’t cool.
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One of the great things about songwrighting; it’s not an intellectual experience.
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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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Everybody’s got a different way of telling a story – and has different stories to tell.
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I never thought I was wasted, but I probably was.
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I’m an unpure purist, something like that.
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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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I have no idea what the audience makes of me.
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