To me, life is a wild animal. You hope to deal with it when it leaps at you.
KEITH RICHARDSIt’s one thing to play a Muddy Waters song. It’s another thing to play with him.
More Keith Richards Quotes
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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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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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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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I’m an unpure purist, something like that.
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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 encourage anybody to do what I do, you know? Why should you? More for me!
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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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Guitar is easy, all it takes is 5 fingers, 6 strings and 1 a**hole.
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To make a rock’n’roll record, technology is the least important thing.
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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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I don’t regret nothing.
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I have no idea what the audience makes of me.
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You get onstage and make other people feel happy. Make them feel good.
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My life is full of broken halos.
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Let me be clear about this. I don’t have a drug problem. I have a police problem.
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