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.
KEITH RICHARDSI look for ambiguity when I’m writing because life is ambiguous.
More Keith Richards Quotes
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I haven’t stopped smoking; anything.
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If you’ve gotta think about being cool, you ain’t cool.
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What is life but playing with time?
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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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The Stones in a club is still the ultimate rush.
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Everybody thinks you reach a certain age and you’re a grownup, but it’s not true. Nobody grows up until the day they croak.
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Preaching is tax free. Very little to do with God, a lot to do with money.
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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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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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Love has sold more songs than you’ve had hot dinners.
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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 don’t wave a flag for anything. I’m a musician.
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I looked upon myself, in a sort of romantic and silly way, as like a laboratory.
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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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If you don’t know the blues there’s no point in picking up the guitar and playing rock and roll or any other form of popular music.
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