The Stones in a club is still the ultimate rush.
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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What is life but playing with time?
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If you stay up, you get the songs that everyone else misses because they’re asleep.
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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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Music is a language that doesn’t speak in particular words. It speaks in emotions, and if it’s in the bones, it’s in the bones.
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Songwriting’s a weird game.
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My father. I snorted my father. He was cremated and I couldn’t resist grinding him up with a little bit of blow.
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I don’t regret nothing.
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I achieved everything I wanted to achieve by being in the Rolling Stones and making records.
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I don’t wave a flag for anything. I’m a musician.
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A painter’s got a canvas. The writer’s got reams of empty paper. A musician has silence.
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The rock’s easy, but the roll is another thing.
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True friends. Hardest thing to find, but you never look for them – they found you ; you just grow into each other
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We age not by holding on to youth, but by letting ourselves grow and embracing whatever youthful parts remain.
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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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To me, my biggest fear is getting a big head, and that is when I get the hammer. Because it’s very easy in this game to believe you’re something special.
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