Women are a beautiful complication, and I look forward to far more beauties and far more complications.
KEITH RICHARDSWhy would you want to be anything else if you’re Mick Jagger?
More Keith Richards Quotes
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We age not by holding on to youth, but by letting ourselves grow and embracing whatever youthful parts remain.
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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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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 is a necessity. After food, air, water and warmth, music is the next necessity of life.
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To make a rock’n’roll record, technology is the least important thing.
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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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You get onstage and make other people feel happy. Make them feel good.
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Anything you throw yourself into, you better get yourself out of.
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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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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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You know, the BBC had not been particularly generous in its deliverance of blues and esoteric kinds of music.
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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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It’s an addiction and addiction is something I should know something about.
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You don’t find a style. A style finds you.
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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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