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.
KEITH RICHARDS
No broken hearts, no broken necks.
More Keith Richards Quotes
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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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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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If you say I’m great, thank you very much. But I know what I am. I could be better, man, you know?
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Rock and Roll: Music for the neck downwards.
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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’m free of hypochondria– although I’ve got everything else.
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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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If you’re going to kick authority in the teeth, you might as well use both feet.
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One of the great things about songwrighting; it’s not an intellectual experience.
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I like it here in Austin. Anybody got a room?
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I haven’t stopped smoking; anything.
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Songwriting’s a weird game.
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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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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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