You get onstage and make other people feel happy. Make them feel good.
KEITH RICHARDSI’ve never had inner turmoil about all this. You find a lot of people these days who cannot stand to be alone. You could lock me up in solitary for weeks on end, and I’d keep myself amused.
More Keith Richards Quotes
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I achieved everything I wanted to achieve by being in the Rolling Stones and making records.
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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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Why would you want to be anything else if you’re Mick Jagger?
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Rock and roll ain’t nothing but jazz with a hard backbeat.
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There’s a demon in me, and he’s still around. Without the dope, we have a bit more of a chat these days.
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I’m not getting old I’m evolving.
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Rock and Roll: Music for the neck downwards.
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You know, the BBC had not been particularly generous in its deliverance of blues and esoteric kinds of music.
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Retire? I can’t spell the word. I’d play in a wheelchair.
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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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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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It might appear that nothing is happening, but that’s actually when it really happens.
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To a musician or songwriter, your canvas is silence.
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I’ve never turned blue in someone else’s bathroom. I consider that the height of bad manners.
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I haven’t stopped smoking; anything.
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