The rock’s easy, but the roll is another thing.
KEITH RICHARDSA painter’s got a canvas. The writer’s got reams of empty paper. A musician has silence.
More Keith Richards Quotes
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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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Some things get better with age. Like me.
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I read the Bible sometimes, but it bores me to death. I just want to know what other people find so bloody fascinating.
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To make a rock’n’roll record, technology is the least important thing.
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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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When 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.
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I only get ill when I give up drugs. I don’t have a drug problem, I have a police problem.
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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 look for ambiguity when I’m writing because life is ambiguous.
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If you’re going to kick authority in the teeth, you might as well use both feet.
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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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Everyone talks about rock these days; the problem is they forget about the roll.
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I don’t regret nothing.
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You don’t find a style. A style finds you.
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