To make a rock’n’roll record, technology is the least important thing.
KEITH RICHARDSYou get onstage and make other people feel happy. Make them feel good.
More Keith Richards Quotes
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What is life but playing with time?
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Preaching is tax free. Very little to do with God, a lot to do with money.
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To me, life is a wild animal. You hope to deal with it when it leaps at you.
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I’ve never had my hair cut by anybody, I do it all myself.
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My life is full of broken halos.
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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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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 mean some doctor told me I had six months to live and I went to their funeral.
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What Muddy Waters did for us is what we should do for others. It’s the old thing, what you want written on your tombstone as a musician: ‘He passed it on.’
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We all have our own personal laboratories. Life is an experiment, and it’s just a matter of getting the alchemical or chemical combination right.
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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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You know, the BBC had not been particularly generous in its deliverance of blues and esoteric kinds of music.
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I’ve got nothing against daylight. I don’t live totally nocturnally. Only when I feel like it. Which is most of the time.
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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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Women are a beautiful complication, and I look forward to far more beauties and far more complications.
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