One of the great things about songwrighting; it’s not an intellectual experience.
KEITH RICHARDSYou get onstage and make other people feel happy. Make them feel good.
More Keith Richards Quotes
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Whatever side I take, I know well that I will be blamed.
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The Stones in a club is still the ultimate rush.
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True friends. Hardest thing to find, but you never look for them – they found you ; you just grow into each other
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I have no idea what the audience makes of me.
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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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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 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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I was number 1 on the who’s likely to die list for 10 years. I was really disappointed when I fell off that list.
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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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To make a rock’n’roll record, technology is the least important thing.
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To me, the main thing about living on this planet is to know who the hell you are and be real about it. That’s the reason I’m still alive.
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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?
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I looked upon myself, in a sort of romantic and silly way, as like a laboratory.
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Rock and roll ain’t nothing but jazz with a hard backbeat.
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I only get ill when I give up drugs. I don’t have a drug problem, I have a police problem.
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