Rock and roll ain’t nothing but jazz with a hard backbeat.
KEITH RICHARDSWomen are a beautiful complication, and I look forward to far more beauties and far more complications.
More Keith Richards Quotes
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Songwriting’s a weird game.
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The only things Mick and I disagree about is the band, the music and what we do.
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And then I think we realized, like any young guys, that blues are not learned in a monastery. You’ve got to go out there and get your heart broke and then come back and then you can sing the blues.
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Whatever side I take, I know well that I will be blamed.
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What is life but playing with time?
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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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You don’t find a style. A style finds you.
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To me, life is a wild animal. You hope to deal with it when it leaps at you.
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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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I mean some doctor told me I had six months to live and I went to their funeral.
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I’m an unpure purist, something like that.
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I occasionally borrow pot from my kids. They do a little weed occasionally. ‘Here, Dad’ – or more likely, ‘Dad, have you got any?’
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I am not doing it just for the money or for you. I am doing it for me.
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To a musician or songwriter, your canvas is silence.
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Guitar is easy, all it takes is 5 fingers, 6 strings and 1 a**hole.
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