Why would you want to be anything else if you’re Mick Jagger?
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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If you’re cool, you don’t know nothing about it. It just is, or you ain’t.
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I don’t regret nothing.
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My life is full of broken halos.
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To make a rock’n’roll record, technology is the least important thing.
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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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I mean some doctor told me I had six months to live and I went to their funeral.
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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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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’ve never had a problem with drugs. I’ve had problems with the police.
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I looked upon myself, in a sort of romantic and silly way, as like a laboratory.
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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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I don’t wave a flag for anything. I’m a musician.
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I’m an unpure purist, something like that.
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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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George Jones is a national treasure and should be treated accordingly. A unique style so often emulated even inadvertently.
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