I’m all for a quiet life. I just didn’t get one.
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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If you’ve gotta think about being cool, you ain’t cool.
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You get onstage and make other people feel happy. Make them feel good.
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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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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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I don’t encourage anybody to do what I do, you know? Why should you? More for me!
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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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Music works in mysterious ways. Once it goes in you have no idea what it can do to you.
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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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One of the great things about songwrighting; it’s not an intellectual experience.
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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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My life is full of broken halos.
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I look for ambiguity when I’m writing because life is ambiguous.
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Nobody wants to get old, but nobody wants to die young either.
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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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Songwriting’s a weird game.
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