To make a rock’n’roll record, technology is the least important thing.
KEITH RICHARDSI looked upon myself, in a sort of romantic and silly way, as like a laboratory.
More Keith Richards Quotes
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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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Women are a beautiful complication, and I look forward to far more beauties and far more complications.
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I look for ambiguity when I’m writing because life is ambiguous.
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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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Nobody wants to get old, but nobody wants to die young either.
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If you’re cool, you don’t know nothing about it. It just is, or you ain’t.
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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 like it here in Austin. Anybody got a room?
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I’ve never turned blue in someone else’s bathroom. I consider that the height of bad manners.
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You have the sun, you have the moon, you have the air that you breathe – and you have the Rolling Stones!
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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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It’s one thing to play a Muddy Waters song. It’s another thing to play with him.
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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 never thought I was wasted, but I probably was.
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And then I think we realized, like any young guys, that blues are not learned in a monastery. You’ve got to go out there and get your heart broke and then come back and then you can sing the blues.
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