I mean, give me a guitar, give me a piano, give me a broom and string, I wouldn’t get bored anywhere.
KEITH RICHARDSI never plan anything, which is probably the difference between Mick and myself. Mick needs to know what he’s gonna do tomorrow and I’m just happy to wake up to see who’s hanging around. Mick’s rock and I’m roll.
More Keith Richards Quotes
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The rock’s easy, but the roll is another thing.
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I’ve never had inner turmoil about all this. You find a lot of people these days who cannot stand to be alone. You could lock me up in solitary for weeks on end, and I’d keep myself amused.
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I’ve got nothing against daylight. I don’t live totally nocturnally. Only when I feel like it. Which is most of the time.
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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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You know, the BBC had not been particularly generous in its deliverance of blues and esoteric kinds of music.
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The Stones in a club is still the ultimate rush.
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I never thought I was wasted, but I probably was.
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Preaching is tax free. Very little to do with God, a lot to do with money.
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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 can’t accuse me of anything I haven’t already confessed to.
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Rock and Roll: Music for the neck downwards.
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It might appear that nothing is happening, but that’s actually when it really happens.
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I achieved everything I wanted to achieve by being in the Rolling Stones and making records.
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Let me be clear about this. I don’t have a drug problem. I have a police problem.
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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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