Why would you want to be anything else if you’re Mick Jagger?
KEITH RICHARDSI mean, give me a guitar, give me a piano, give me a broom and string, I wouldn’t get bored anywhere.
More Keith Richards Quotes
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Guitar is easy, all it takes is 5 fingers, 6 strings and 1 a**hole.
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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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You get onstage and make other people feel happy. Make them feel good.
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One of the great things about songwrighting; it’s not an intellectual experience.
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My life is full of broken halos.
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True friends. Hardest thing to find, but you never look for them – they found you ; you just grow into each other
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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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Nobody wants to get old, but nobody wants to die young either.
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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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Fame has killed more very talented guys than drugs. Jimi Hendrix didn’t die of an overdose, he died of fame.
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I don’t wave a flag for anything. I’m a musician.
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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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To make a rock’n’roll record, technology is the least important thing.
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Some things get better with age. Like me.
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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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