[John] Belushi was an extreme experience even by my standards.
KEITH RICHARDSRock and roll ain’t nothing but jazz with a hard backbeat.
More Keith Richards Quotes
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We age not by holding on to youth, but by letting ourselves grow and embracing whatever youthful parts remain.
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Songwriting’s a weird game.
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Why would you want to be anything else if you’re Mick Jagger?
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I like it here in Austin. Anybody got a room?
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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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If you’re cool, you don’t know nothing about it. It just is, or you ain’t.
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Retire? I can’t spell the word. I’d play in a wheelchair.
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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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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 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 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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I haven’t stopped smoking; anything.
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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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My life is full of broken halos.
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When you’re 20, you can’t imagine being 30. When you’re 30, you can’t imagine being 40. When you’re 40, you can’t imagine being 100.
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