You don’t find a style. A style finds you.
KEITH RICHARDSRock and roll ain’t nothing but jazz with a hard backbeat.
More Keith Richards Quotes
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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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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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But 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?
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One of the great things about songwrighting; it’s not an intellectual experience.
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Rock and Roll: Music for the neck downwards.
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I like it here in Austin. Anybody got a room?
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Why would you want to be anything else if you’re Mick Jagger?
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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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A painter’s got a canvas. The writer’s got reams of empty paper. A musician has silence.
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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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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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You get onstage and make other people feel happy. Make them feel good.
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I only get ill when I give up drugs. I don’t have a drug problem, I have a police problem.
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I looked upon myself, in a sort of romantic and silly way, as like a laboratory.
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