Rock and roll ain’t nothing but jazz with a hard backbeat.
KEITH RICHARDSI don’t encourage anybody to do what I do, you know? Why should you? More for me!
More Keith Richards Quotes
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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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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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Preaching is tax free. Very little to do with God, a lot to do with money.
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I’ve never turned blue in someone else’s bathroom. I consider that the height of bad manners.
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I don’t trust doctors. It’s not to say there ain’t some good ones, but on a general level, no, I wouldn’t trust ’em at all.
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You can’t accuse me of anything I haven’t already confessed to.
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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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You’ve got the sun, you’ve got the moon, and you’ve got the Rolling Stones.
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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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Retire? I can’t spell the word. I’d play in a wheelchair.
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If you’ve gotta think about being cool, you ain’t cool.
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What is life but playing with time?
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I never thought I was wasted, but I probably was.
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I look for ambiguity when I’m writing because life is ambiguous.
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A painter’s got a canvas. The writer’s got reams of empty paper. A musician has silence.
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