If you’ve gotta think about being cool, you ain’t cool.
KEITH RICHARDSI 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.
More Keith Richards Quotes
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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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Guitar is easy, all it takes is 5 fingers, 6 strings and 1 a**hole.
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You can’t accuse me of anything I haven’t already confessed to.
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I read the Bible sometimes, but it bores me to death. I just want to know what other people find so bloody fascinating.
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I’m not getting old I’m evolving.
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Songwriting’s a weird game.
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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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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 have no idea what the audience makes of me.
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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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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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Poison’s not bad. It’s a matter of how much.
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I’ve never had a problem with drugs. I’ve had problems with the police.
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It’s great to be here. It’s great to be anywhere.
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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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