It’s great to be here. It’s great to be anywhere.
KEITH RICHARDSThe rock’s easy, but the roll is another thing.
More Keith Richards Quotes
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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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A painter’s got a canvas. The writer’s got reams of empty paper. A musician has silence.
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You know, the BBC had not been particularly generous in its deliverance of blues and esoteric kinds of music.
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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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I’ve never turned blue in someone else’s bathroom. I consider that the height of bad manners.
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George Jones is a national treasure and should be treated accordingly. A unique style so often emulated even inadvertently.
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Rock and roll ain’t nothing but jazz with a hard backbeat.
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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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I’m all for a quiet life. I just didn’t get one.
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Anything you throw yourself into, you better get yourself out of.
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The idea of retiring is like killing yourself. It’s almost like Hari Kari. I intend to live to a 100 and go down in history.
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I don’t wave a flag for anything. I’m a musician.
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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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One minute I’m standing at Ronnie Scott’s getting a standing ovation and the next minute, I’m on a marble slab
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