Everyone talks about rock these days; the problem is they forget about the roll.
KEITH RICHARDSThe public library is the great equaliser.
More Keith Richards Quotes
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Songwriting’s a weird game.
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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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I never sleep alone. If there is no one to sleep next to, I’ll sleep next to a stuffed animal. It makes me feel secure and safe. It’s a little embarrassing to admit it; I’m an old man now. It’s important to me though.
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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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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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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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Love has sold more songs than you’ve had hot dinners.
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To make a rock’n’roll record, technology is the least important thing.
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And then I think we realized, like any young guys, that blues are not learned in a monastery. You’ve got to go out there and get your heart broke and then come back and then you can sing the blues.
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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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The public library is the great equaliser.
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Anything you throw yourself into, you better get yourself out of.
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I was number 1 on the who’s likely to die list for 10 years. I was really disappointed when I fell off that list.
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There’s a demon in me, and he’s still around. Without the dope, we have a bit more of a chat these days.
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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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