If you stay up, you get the songs that everyone else misses because they’re asleep.
KEITH RICHARDSThe electric guitar was vital in helping what I’ve achieved where would I be without it? Playing awfully quietly, for a start.
More Keith Richards Quotes
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I’m free of hypochondria– although I’ve got everything else.
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I achieved everything I wanted to achieve by being in the Rolling Stones and making records.
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I look for ambiguity when I’m writing because life is ambiguous.
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The idea of retiring is like killing yourself. It’s almost like Hari Kari. I intend to live to a 100 and go down in history.
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Music is a necessity. After food, air, water and warmth, music is the next necessity of life.
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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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Guitar is easy, all it takes is 5 fingers, 6 strings and 1 a**hole.
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I never thought I was wasted, but I probably was.
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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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Everyone talks about rock these days; the problem is they forget about the roll.
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Women are a beautiful complication, and I look forward to far more beauties and far more complications.
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Rock and Roll: Music for the neck downwards.
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I mean some doctor told me I had six months to live and I went to their funeral.
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Rock and roll ain’t nothing but jazz with a hard backbeat.
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You can’t accuse me of anything I haven’t already confessed to.
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