Everybody’s got a different way of telling a story – and has different stories to tell.
KEITH RICHARDSTo make a rock’n’roll record, technology is the least important thing.
More Keith Richards Quotes
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Rock and Roll: Music for the neck downwards.
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Nobody wants to get old, but nobody wants to die young either.
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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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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 a musician or songwriter, your canvas is silence.
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I looked upon myself, in a sort of romantic and silly way, as like a laboratory.
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Yes, I’ve been trepanned. That’s quite an interesting experience, especially for my brain surgeon, who saw my thoughts flying around in my brain.
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My life is full of broken halos.
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Rock and roll ain’t nothing but jazz with a hard backbeat.
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Whatever side I take, I know well that I will be blamed.
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I was in awe sometimes listening to Mick Taylor . Everything was there in his playing – the melodic touch, a beautiful sustain and a way of reading a song.
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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 trust doctors. It’s not to say there ain’t some good ones, but on a general level, no, I wouldn’t trust ’em at all.
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Preaching is tax free. Very little to do with God, a lot to do with money.
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If you’re cool, you don’t know nothing about it. It just is, or you ain’t.
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