If you’re cool, you don’t know nothing about it. It just is, or you ain’t.
KEITH RICHARDSWhen you’re 20, you can’t imagine being 30. When you’re 30, you can’t imagine being 40. When you’re 40, you can’t imagine being 100.
More Keith Richards Quotes
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I look for ambiguity when I’m writing because life is ambiguous.
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I mean, give me a guitar, give me a piano, give me a broom and string, I wouldn’t get bored anywhere.
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The Stones in a club is still the ultimate rush.
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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 haven’t stopped smoking; anything.
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Songwriting’s a weird game.
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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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You’ve got the sun, you’ve got the moon, and you’ve got the Rolling Stones.
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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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If you don’t know the blues there’s no point in picking up the guitar and playing rock and roll or any other form of popular music.
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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’ve never had my hair cut by anybody, I do it all myself.
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Love has sold more songs than you’ve had hot dinners.
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You get onstage and make other people feel happy. Make them feel good.
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The idea of retiring is like killing yourself. It’s almost like Hari Kari. I intend to live to a 100 and go down in history.
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