I don’t wave a flag for anything. I’m a musician.
KEITH RICHARDSOne of the great things about songwrighting; it’s not an intellectual experience.
More Keith Richards Quotes
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True friends. Hardest thing to find, but you never look for them – they found you ; you just grow into each other
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To make a rock’n’roll record, technology is the least important thing.
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Rock and Roll: Music for the neck downwards.
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Whatever side I take, I know well that I will be blamed.
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I occasionally borrow pot from my kids. They do a little weed occasionally. ‘Here, Dad’ – or more likely, ‘Dad, have you got any?’
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If you are going to get wasted, then get wasted elegantly.
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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 achieved everything I wanted to achieve by being in the Rolling Stones and making records.
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When you are growing up there are two institutional places that affect you most powerfully: the church, which belongs to God, and the public library, which belongs to you.
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The public library is the great equaliser.
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What Muddy Waters did for us is what we should do for others. It’s the old thing, what you want written on your tombstone as a musician: ‘He passed it on.’
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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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You’ve got the sun, you’ve got the moon, and you’ve got the Rolling Stones.
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Retire? I can’t spell the word. I’d play in a wheelchair.
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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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