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 RICHARDSAnything you throw yourself into, you better get yourself out of.
More Keith Richards Quotes
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I am not doing it just for the money or for you. I am doing it for me.
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What’s the big deal about still working? Retirement age is sixty-five, and that’s at a normal job – and I ain’t there yet.
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I haven’t stopped smoking; anything.
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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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Anything you throw yourself into, you better get yourself out of.
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To a musician or songwriter, your canvas is silence.
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Some things get better with age. Like me.
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When 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.
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One of the great things about songwrighting; it’s not an intellectual experience.
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I occasionally borrow pot from my kids. They do a little weed occasionally. ‘Here, Dad’ – or more likely, ‘Dad, have you got any?’
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I have no idea what the audience makes of me.
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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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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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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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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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