If you stay up, you get the songs that everyone else misses because they’re asleep.
KEITH RICHARDSWe all have our own personal laboratories. Life is an experiment, and it’s just a matter of getting the alchemical or chemical combination right.
More Keith Richards Quotes
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I’m an unpure purist, something like that.
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It’s an addiction and addiction is something I should know something about.
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I haven’t stopped smoking; anything.
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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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This is the rock ‘n’ roll life, and you had to invent it as you went along. There was no textbook to say how you operate this machinery.
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Everybody starts by imitating their heroes. For me it was Chuck Berry and Muddy Waters.
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What is life but playing with time?
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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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There’s a demon in me, and he’s still around. Without the dope, we have a bit more of a chat these days.
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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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No broken hearts, no broken necks.
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I don’t regret nothing.
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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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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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Everyone talks about rock these days; the problem is they forget about the roll.
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