To make a rock’n’roll record, technology is the least important thing.
KEITH RICHARDSYou know, the BBC had not been particularly generous in its deliverance of blues and esoteric kinds of music.
More Keith Richards Quotes
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If you say I’m great, thank you very much. But I know what I am. I could be better, man, you know?
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The Stones in a club is still the ultimate rush.
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I’ve never had my hair cut by anybody, I do it all myself.
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I never plan anything, which is probably the difference between Mick and myself. Mick needs to know what he’s gonna do tomorrow and I’m just happy to wake up to see who’s hanging around. Mick’s rock and I’m roll.
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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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No broken hearts, no broken necks.
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If you don’t know the blues there’s no point in picking up the guitar and playing rock and roll or any other form of popular music.
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Preaching is tax free. Very little to do with God, a lot to do with money.
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Some things get better with age. Like me.
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I’m free of hypochondria– although I’ve got everything else.
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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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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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Music works in mysterious ways. Once it goes in you have no idea what it can do to you.
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I don’t encourage anybody to do what I do, you know? Why should you? More for me!
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The public library is the great equaliser.
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