It’s great to be here. It’s great to be anywhere.
KEITH RICHARDSTo a musician or songwriter, your canvas is silence.
More Keith Richards Quotes
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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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Let me be clear about this. I don’t have a drug problem. I have a police problem.
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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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You’ve got the sun, you’ve got the moon, and you’ve got the Rolling Stones.
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Everyone talks about rock these days; the problem is they forget about the roll.
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I haven’t stopped smoking; anything.
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Songwriting’s a weird game.
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I don’t encourage anybody to do what I do, you know? Why should you? More for me!
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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 mean some doctor told me I had six months to live and I went to their funeral.
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The rock’s easy, but the roll is another thing.
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If you’ve gotta think about being cool, you ain’t cool.
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I’m free of hypochondria– although I’ve got everything else.
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Love has sold more songs than you’ve had hot dinners.
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Nobody wants to get old, but nobody wants to die young either.
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