To make a rock’n’roll record, technology is the least important thing.
KEITH RICHARDSPreaching is tax free. Very little to do with God, a lot to do with money.
More Keith Richards Quotes
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I haven’t stopped smoking; anything.
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My father. I snorted my father. He was cremated and I couldn’t resist grinding him up with a little bit of blow.
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I’m an unpure purist, something like that.
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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’ve never had a problem with drugs. I’ve had problems with the police.
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If you are going to get wasted, then get wasted elegantly.
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I am not doing it just for the money or for you. I am doing it for me.
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But I’ve always felt very comfortable on stage, even if I screw up. It always felt like a dog, this is my turf, piss around it. While I’m here, nothing else can happen. All I can do is screw up. Otherwise, have a good time.
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Women are a beautiful complication, and I look forward to far more beauties and far more complications.
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This is the rock ‘n’ roll life, and you had to invent it as you went along. There was no textbook to say how you operate this machinery.
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You get onstage and make other people feel happy. Make them feel good.
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Music is a language that doesn’t speak in particular words. It speaks in emotions, and if it’s in the bones, it’s in the bones.
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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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You see, to me, the art of music is listening to it, not playing it. The real art of it is hearing it.
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And then I think we realized, like any young guys, that blues are not learned in a monastery. You’ve got to go out there and get your heart broke and then come back and then you can sing the blues.
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