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.
KEITH RICHARDSYou can’t accuse me of anything I haven’t already confessed to.
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’ve got the sun, you’ve got the moon, and you’ve got the Rolling Stones.
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The idea of retiring is like killing yourself. It’s almost like Hari Kari. I intend to live to a 100 and go down in history.
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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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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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Rock and Roll: Music for the neck downwards.
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Why would you want to be anything else if you’re Mick Jagger?
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The rock’s easy, but the roll is another thing.
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I look for ambiguity when I’m writing because life is ambiguous.
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Preaching is tax free. Very little to do with God, a lot to do with money.
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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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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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Poison’s not bad. It’s a matter of how much.
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The Stones in a club is still the ultimate rush.
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I haven’t stopped smoking; anything.
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