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.
KEITH RICHARDSThe rock’s easy, but the roll is another thing.
More Keith Richards Quotes
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I am not doing it just for the money or for you. I am doing it for me.
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The Stones in a club is still the ultimate rush.
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Rock and Roll: Music for the neck downwards.
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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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When 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.
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It’s great to be here. It’s great to be anywhere.
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I’m not getting old I’m evolving.
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To me, life is a wild animal. You hope to deal with it when it leaps at you.
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Poison’s not bad. It’s a matter of how much.
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Everybody starts by imitating their heroes. For me it was Chuck Berry and Muddy Waters.
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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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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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My life is full of broken halos.
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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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Music is a necessity. After food, air, water and warmth, music is the next necessity of life.
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