I haven’t stopped smoking; anything.
KEITH RICHARDSMy life is full of broken halos.
More Keith Richards Quotes
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You get onstage and make other people feel happy. Make them feel good.
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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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One of the great things about songwrighting; it’s not an intellectual experience.
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Rock and Roll: Music for the neck downwards.
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One minute I’m standing at Ronnie Scott’s getting a standing ovation and the next minute, I’m on a marble slab
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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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Rock and roll ain’t nothing but jazz with a hard backbeat.
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It’s one thing to play a Muddy Waters song. It’s another thing to play with him.
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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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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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Preaching is tax free. Very little to do with God, a lot to do with money.
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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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Everybody starts by imitating their heroes. For me it was Chuck Berry and Muddy Waters.
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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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Retire? I can’t spell the word. I’d play in a wheelchair.
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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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No broken hearts, no broken necks.
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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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You don’t find a style. A style finds you.
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The Stones in a club is still the ultimate rush.
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I mean, give me a guitar, give me a piano, give me a broom and string, I wouldn’t get bored anywhere.
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Guitar is easy, all it takes is 5 fingers, 6 strings and 1 a**hole.
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Nobody wants to get old, but nobody wants to die young either.
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When I listen to what I did under the influence – 10 years of work – I don’t think it either enhanced or impaired me. It didn’t have that much to do with it.
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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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