Whatever side I take, I know well that I will be blamed.
KEITH RICHARDSBut I’m not here just to make records and money. I’m here to say something and to touch other people, sometimes in a cry of desperation: “Do you know this feeling?
More Keith Richards Quotes
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You can’t accuse me of anything I haven’t already confessed to.
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I’m not getting old I’m evolving.
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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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You know, the BBC had not been particularly generous in its deliverance of blues and esoteric kinds of music.
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To make a rock’n’roll record, technology is the least important thing.
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I looked upon myself, in a sort of romantic and silly way, as like a laboratory.
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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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One minute I’m standing at Ronnie Scott’s getting a standing ovation and the next minute, I’m on a marble slab
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Rock and Roll: Music for the neck downwards.
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The rock’s easy, but the roll is another thing.
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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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My father. I snorted my father. He was cremated and I couldn’t resist grinding him up with a little bit of blow.
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I was in awe sometimes listening to Mick Taylor . Everything was there in his playing – the melodic touch, a beautiful sustain and a way of reading a song.
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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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When you are growing up there are two institutional places that affect you most powerfully: the church, which belongs to God, and the public library, which belongs to you.
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