The rock’s easy, but the roll is another thing.
KEITH RICHARDSThere’s a demon in me, and he’s still around. Without the dope, we have a bit more of a chat these days.
More Keith Richards Quotes
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One of the great things about songwrighting; it’s not an intellectual experience.
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To a musician or songwriter, your canvas is silence.
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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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I looked upon myself, in a sort of romantic and silly way, as like a laboratory.
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I 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.
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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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I’m free of hypochondria– although I’ve got everything else.
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If you stay up, you get the songs that everyone else misses because they’re asleep.
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Rock and roll ain’t nothing but jazz with a hard backbeat.
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Some things get better with age. Like me.
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You don’t find a style. A style finds you.
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What Muddy Waters did for us is what we should do for others. It’s the old thing, what you want written on your tombstone as a musician: ‘He passed it on.’
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Songwriting’s a weird game.
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I’ve never had my hair cut by anybody, I do it all myself.
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I never thought I was wasted, but I probably was.
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