I read the Bible sometimes, but it bores me to death. I just want to know what other people find so bloody fascinating.
KEITH RICHARDSIf 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.
More Keith Richards Quotes
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Rock and roll ain’t nothing but jazz with a hard backbeat.
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I’m free of hypochondria– although I’ve got everything else.
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To make a rock’n’roll record, technology is the least important thing.
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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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If you’re going to kick authority in the teeth, you might as well use both feet.
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I personally believe that most people that play an instrument would be able to write a few songs here and there. But they say, “I tried, I can’t do it” and give up and don’t try it again; they get too discouraged.
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Songwriting’s a weird game.
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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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The Stones in a club is still the ultimate rush.
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Let me be clear about this. I don’t have a drug problem. I have a police problem.
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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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Some things get better with age. Like me.
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I don’t trust doctors. It’s not to say there ain’t some good ones, but on a general level, no, I wouldn’t trust ’em at all.
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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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Poison’s not bad. It’s a matter of how much.
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