Rock and roll ain’t nothing but jazz with a hard backbeat.
KEITH RICHARDSIf you’re going to kick authority in the teeth, you might as well use both feet.
More Keith Richards Quotes
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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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I don’t regret nothing.
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It’s great to be here. It’s great to be anywhere.
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Preaching is tax free. Very little to do with God, a lot to do with money.
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Love has sold more songs than you’ve had hot dinners.
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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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Everybody thinks you reach a certain age and you’re a grownup, but it’s not true. Nobody grows up until the day they croak.
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I don’t trust doctors. It’s not to say there ain’t some good ones, but on a general level, no, I wouldn’t trust ’em at all.
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You can’t accuse me of anything I haven’t already confessed to.
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It might appear that nothing is happening, but that’s actually when it really happens.
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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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The idea of retiring is like killing yourself. It’s almost like Hari Kari. I intend to live to a 100 and go down in history.
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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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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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If you stay up, you get the songs that everyone else misses because they’re asleep.
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