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 mean some doctor told me I had six months to live and I went to their funeral.
More Keith Richards Quotes
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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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You see, to me, the art of music is listening to it, not playing it. The real art of it is hearing it.
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Anything you throw yourself into, you better get yourself out of.
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I personally believe that most people that play an instrument would be able to write a few songs here and there. But they say, “I tried, I can’t do it” and give up and don’t try it again; they get too discouraged.
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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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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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No broken hearts, no broken necks.
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You have the sun, you have the moon, you have the air that you breathe – and you have the Rolling Stones!
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I’m free of hypochondria– although I’ve got everything else.
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I don’t regret nothing.
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Preaching is tax free. Very little to do with God, a lot to do with money.
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One minute I’m standing at Ronnie Scott’s getting a standing ovation and the next minute, I’m on a marble slab
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A painter’s got a canvas. The writer’s got reams of empty paper. A musician has silence.
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[John] Belushi was an extreme experience even by my standards.
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