The rock’s easy, but the roll is another thing.
KEITH RICHARDSNobody wants to get old, but nobody wants to die young either.
More Keith Richards Quotes
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The Stones in a club is still the ultimate rush.
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I consider my job [being a musician] is to have a little idea and nurture it and put it in some form that everybody else can understand and then sort of pass it on. It’s really a passing through. In other words, you receive and you transmit.
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I mean some doctor told me I had six months to live and I went to their funeral.
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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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A painter’s got a canvas. The writer’s got reams of empty paper. A musician has silence.
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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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If you’ve gotta think about being cool, you ain’t cool.
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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 never thought I was wasted, but I probably was.
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Guitar is easy, all it takes is 5 fingers, 6 strings and 1 a**hole.
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If you stay up, you get the songs that everyone else misses because they’re asleep.
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It’s great to be here. It’s great to be anywhere.
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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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Why would you want to be anything else if you’re Mick Jagger?
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