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.
KEITH RICHARDSRock and Roll: Music for the neck downwards.
More Keith Richards Quotes
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We all have our own personal laboratories. Life is an experiment, and it’s just a matter of getting the alchemical or chemical combination right.
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The public library is the great equaliser.
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Rock and Roll: Music for the neck downwards.
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Music is a necessity. After food, air, water and warmth, music is the next necessity of life.
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Music works in mysterious ways. Once it goes in you have no idea what it can do to you.
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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 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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Poison’s not bad. It’s a matter of how much.
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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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Everybody starts by imitating their heroes. For me it was Chuck Berry and Muddy Waters.
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I achieved everything I wanted to achieve by being in the Rolling Stones and making records.
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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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To me, life is a wild animal. You hope to deal with it when it leaps at you.
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I have no idea what the audience makes of me.
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Songwriting’s a weird game.
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