I’m an unpure purist, something like that.
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More Keith Richards Quotes
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One of the great things about songwrighting; it’s not an intellectual experience.
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I look for ambiguity when I’m writing because life is ambiguous.
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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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Everyone talks about rock these days; the problem is they forget about the roll.
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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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Some people think I’m a mythical genius, others think I’m a junkie madman.
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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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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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The public library is the great equaliser.
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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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[John] Belushi was an extreme experience even by my standards.
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Everybody starts by imitating their heroes. For me it was Chuck Berry and Muddy Waters.
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I like it here in Austin. Anybody got a room?
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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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It might appear that nothing is happening, but that’s actually when it really happens.
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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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This is the rock ‘n’ roll life, and you had to invent it as you went along. There was no textbook to say how you operate this machinery.
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Songwriting’s a weird game.
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To a musician or songwriter, your canvas is silence.
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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’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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The only things Mick and I disagree about is the band, the music and what we do.
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It’s an addiction and addiction is something I should know something about.
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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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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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If you’re going to kick authority in the teeth, you might as well use both feet.
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