You’ve got the sun, you’ve got the moon, and you’ve got the Rolling Stones.
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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Women are a beautiful complication, and I look forward to far more beauties and far more complications.
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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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If you’ve gotta think about being cool, you ain’t cool.
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I was in awe sometimes listening to Mick Taylor . Everything was there in his playing – the melodic touch, a beautiful sustain and a way of reading a song.
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But I’ve always felt very comfortable on stage, even if I screw up. It always felt like a dog, this is my turf, piss around it. While I’m here, nothing else can happen. All I can do is screw up. Otherwise, have a good time.
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Music is a language that doesn’t speak in particular words. It speaks in emotions, and if it’s in the bones, it’s in the bones.
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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 was number 1 on the who’s likely to die list for 10 years. I was really disappointed when I fell off that list.
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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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I read the Bible sometimes, but it bores me to death. I just want to know what other people find so bloody fascinating.
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The rock’s easy, but the roll is another thing.
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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 haven’t stopped smoking; anything.
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It’s an addiction and addiction is something I should know something about.
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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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