Everybody’s got a different way of telling a story – and has different stories to tell.
KEITH RICHARDSI haven’t stopped smoking; anything.
More Keith Richards Quotes
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If you stay up, you get the songs that everyone else misses because they’re asleep.
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I’ve got nothing against daylight. I don’t live totally nocturnally. Only when I feel like it. Which is most of the time.
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I’m an unpure purist, something like that.
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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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Rock and roll ain’t nothing but jazz with a hard backbeat.
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Music works in mysterious ways. Once it goes in you have no idea what it can do to you.
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No broken hearts, no broken necks.
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What’s the big deal about still working? Retirement age is sixty-five, and that’s at a normal job – and I ain’t there yet.
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One of the great things about songwrighting; it’s not an intellectual experience.
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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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I only get ill when I give up drugs. I don’t have a drug problem, I have a police problem.
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I’m free of hypochondria– although I’ve got everything else.
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I was number 1 on the who’s likely to die list for 10 years. I was really disappointed when I fell off that list.
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I have no idea what the audience makes of me.
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Rock and Roll: Music for the neck downwards.
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