You can’t accuse me of anything I haven’t already confessed to.
KEITH RICHARDSIf you stay up, you get the songs that everyone else misses because they’re asleep.
More Keith Richards Quotes
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Everybody thinks you reach a certain age and you’re a grownup, but it’s not true. Nobody grows up until the day they croak.
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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 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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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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Retire? I can’t spell the word. I’d play in a wheelchair.
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If you stay up, you get the songs that everyone else misses because they’re asleep.
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To make a rock’n’roll record, technology is the least important thing.
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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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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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Rock and roll ain’t nothing but jazz with a hard backbeat.
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Fame has killed more very talented guys than drugs. Jimi Hendrix didn’t die of an overdose, he died of fame.
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I’m all for a quiet life. I just didn’t get one.
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I never sleep alone. If there is no one to sleep next to, I’ll sleep next to a stuffed animal. It makes me feel secure and safe. It’s a little embarrassing to admit it; I’m an old man now. It’s important to me though.
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Rock and Roll: Music for the neck downwards.
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I don’t regret nothing.
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