One of the great things about songwrighting; it’s not an intellectual experience.
KEITH RICHARDSI 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.
More Keith Richards Quotes
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Everybody thinks you reach a certain age and you’re a grownup, but it’s not true. Nobody grows up until the day they croak.
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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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This is the rock ‘n’ roll life, and you had to invent it as you went along. There was no textbook to say how you operate this machinery.
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What Muddy Waters did for us is what we should do for others. It’s the old thing, what you want written on your tombstone as a musician: ‘He passed it on.’
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I don’t regret nothing.
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If you’ve gotta think about being cool, you ain’t cool.
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Rock and roll ain’t nothing but jazz with a hard backbeat.
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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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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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The electric guitar was vital in helping what I’ve achieved where would I be without it? Playing awfully quietly, for a start.
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I’ve never had a problem with drugs. I’ve had problems with the police.
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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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I looked upon myself, in a sort of romantic and silly way, as like a laboratory.
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Songwriting’s a weird game.
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