If you’ve gotta think about being cool, you ain’t cool.
KEITH RICHARDSTo a musician or songwriter, your canvas is silence.
More Keith Richards Quotes
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Some things get better with age. Like me.
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To make a rock’n’roll record, technology is the least important thing.
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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 look for ambiguity when I’m writing because life is ambiguous.
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To me, my biggest fear is getting a big head, and that is when I get the hammer. Because it’s very easy in this game to believe you’re something special.
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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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The only things Mick and I disagree about is the band, the music and what we do.
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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’ve never turned blue in someone else’s bathroom. I consider that the height of bad manners.
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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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The Stones in a club is still the ultimate rush.
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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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I achieved everything I wanted to achieve by being in the Rolling Stones and making records.
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I’m all for a quiet life. I just didn’t get one.
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And then I think we realized, like any young guys, that blues are not learned in a monastery. You’ve got to go out there and get your heart broke and then come back and then you can sing the blues.
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