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.
KEITH RICHARDSYes, I’ve been trepanned. That’s quite an interesting experience, especially for my brain surgeon, who saw my thoughts flying around in my brain.
More Keith Richards Quotes
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If you’re going to kick authority in the teeth, you might as well use both feet.
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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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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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Rock and Roll: Music for the neck downwards.
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If you are going to get wasted, then get wasted elegantly.
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To me, my biggest fear is getting a big head, and that is when I get the hammer. Because it’s very easy in this game to believe you’re something special.
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One of the great things about songwrighting; it’s not an intellectual experience.
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If you’ve gotta think about being cool, you ain’t cool.
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It might appear that nothing is happening, but that’s actually when it really happens.
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You have the sun, you have the moon, you have the air that you breathe – and you have the Rolling Stones!
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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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Music works in mysterious ways. Once it goes in you have no idea what it can do to you.
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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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Some things get better with age. Like me.
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[John] Belushi was an extreme experience even by my standards.
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