Rock and roll ain’t nothing but jazz with a hard backbeat.
KEITH RICHARDSWhen 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.
More Keith Richards Quotes
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I like it here in Austin. Anybody got a room?
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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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George Jones is a national treasure and should be treated accordingly. A unique style so often emulated even inadvertently.
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To me, the main thing about living on this planet is to know who the hell you are and be real about it. That’s the reason I’m still alive.
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If you are going to get wasted, then get wasted elegantly.
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I haven’t stopped smoking; anything.
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Some things get better with age. Like me.
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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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I’m an unpure purist, something like that.
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I look for ambiguity when I’m writing because life is ambiguous.
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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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We all have our own personal laboratories. Life is an experiment, and it’s just a matter of getting the alchemical or chemical combination right.
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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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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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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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