I’m free of hypochondria– although I’ve got everything else.
KEITH RICHARDSI achieved everything I wanted to achieve by being in the Rolling Stones and making records.
More Keith Richards Quotes
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I was in awe sometimes listening to Mick Taylor . Everything was there in his playing – the melodic touch, a beautiful sustain and a way of reading a song.
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I looked upon myself, in a sort of romantic and silly way, as like a laboratory.
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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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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 all for a quiet life. I just didn’t get one.
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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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You’ve got the sun, you’ve got the moon, and you’ve got the Rolling Stones.
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To make a rock’n’roll record, technology is the least important thing.
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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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When I listen to what I did under the influence – 10 years of work – I don’t think it either enhanced or impaired me. It didn’t have that much to do with it.
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To me, my biggest fear is getting a big head, and that is when I get the hammer. Because it’s very easy in this game to believe you’re something special.
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It’s a privilege just to wake up to a new day.
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You don’t find a style. A style finds you.
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Some people think I’m a mythical genius, others think I’m a junkie madman.
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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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