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.
KEITH RICHARDSAnd 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.
More Keith Richards Quotes
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You’ve got the sun, you’ve got the moon, and you’ve got the Rolling Stones.
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Poison’s not bad. It’s a matter of how much.
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Retire? I can’t spell the word. I’d play in a wheelchair.
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What’s the big deal about still working? Retirement age is sixty-five, and that’s at a normal job – and I ain’t there yet.
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I looked upon myself, in a sort of romantic and silly way, as like a laboratory.
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I never sleep alone. If there is no one to sleep next to, I’ll sleep next to a stuffed animal. It makes me feel secure and safe. It’s a little embarrassing to admit it; I’m an old man now. It’s important to me though.
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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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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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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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There’s a demon in me, and he’s still around. Without the dope, we have a bit more of a chat these days.
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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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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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You see, to me, the art of music is listening to it, not playing it. The real art of it is hearing it.
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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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