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?
KEITH RICHARDSEverybody’s got a different way of telling a story – and has different stories to tell.
More Keith Richards Quotes
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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 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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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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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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If you’re cool, you don’t know nothing about it. It just is, or you ain’t.
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I mean some doctor told me I had six months to live and I went to their funeral.
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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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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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I don’t regret nothing.
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Love has sold more songs than you’ve had hot dinners.
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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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Some things get better with age. Like me.
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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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You don’t find a style. A style finds you.
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I mean, give me a guitar, give me a piano, give me a broom and string, I wouldn’t get bored anywhere.
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