I look for ambiguity when I’m writing because life is ambiguous.
KEITH RICHARDSWhen I listen to what I did under the influence – 10 years of work – I don’t think it either enhanced or impaired me. It didn’t have that much to do with it.
More Keith Richards Quotes
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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.
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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 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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I don’t encourage anybody to do what I do, you know? Why should you? More for me!
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I only get ill when I give up drugs. I don’t have a drug problem, I have a police problem.
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If you’ve gotta think about being cool, you ain’t cool.
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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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The Stones in a club is still the ultimate rush.
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If you are going to get wasted, then get wasted elegantly.
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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 know, the BBC had not been particularly generous in its deliverance of blues and esoteric kinds of music.
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What is life but playing with time?
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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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Songwriting’s a weird game.
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If you’re going to kick authority in the teeth, you might as well use both feet.
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