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.
KEITH RICHARDSGuitar is easy, all it takes is 5 fingers, 6 strings and 1 a**hole.
More Keith Richards Quotes
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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 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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I don’t regret nothing.
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I’m not getting old I’m evolving.
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It’s a privilege just to wake up to a new day.
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I never plan anything, which is probably the difference between Mick and myself. Mick needs to know what he’s gonna do tomorrow and I’m just happy to wake up to see who’s hanging around. Mick’s rock and I’m roll.
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I’m free of hypochondria– although I’ve got everything else.
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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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Love has sold more songs than you’ve had hot dinners.
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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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Why would you want to be anything else if you’re Mick Jagger?
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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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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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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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Anything you throw yourself into, you better get yourself out of.
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