I look for ambiguity when I’m writing because life is ambiguous.
KEITH RICHARDSMy father. I snorted my father. He was cremated and I couldn’t resist grinding him up with a little bit of blow.
More Keith Richards Quotes
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Music is a language that doesn’t speak in particular words. It speaks in emotions, and if it’s in the bones, it’s in the bones.
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I was in awe sometimes listening to Mick Taylor . Everything was there in his playing – the melodic touch, a beautiful sustain and a way of reading a song.
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The public library is the great equaliser.
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I looked upon myself, in a sort of romantic and silly way, as like a laboratory.
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It’s great to be here. It’s great to be anywhere.
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Poison’s not bad. It’s a matter of how much.
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The only things Mick and I disagree about is the band, the music and what we do.
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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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Why would you want to be anything else if you’re Mick Jagger?
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Women are a beautiful complication, and I look forward to far more beauties and far more complications.
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If you stay up, you get the songs that everyone else misses because they’re asleep.
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I personally believe that most people that play an instrument would be able to write a few songs here and there. But they say, “I tried, I can’t do it” and give up and don’t try it again; they get too discouraged.
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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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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’ve gotta think about being cool, you ain’t cool.
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