I am not doing it just for the money or for you. I am doing it for me.
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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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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Music is a necessity. After food, air, water and warmth, music is the next necessity of life.
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It’s great to be here. It’s great to be anywhere.
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My father. I snorted my father. He was cremated and I couldn’t resist grinding him up with a little bit of blow.
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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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I’m an unpure purist, something like that.
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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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If you’ve gotta think about being cool, you ain’t cool.
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Music is a language that doesn’t speak in particular words. It speaks in emotions, and if it’s in the bones, it’s in the bones.
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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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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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Everyone talks about rock these days; the problem is they forget about the roll.
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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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Fame has killed more very talented guys than drugs. Jimi Hendrix didn’t die of an overdose, he died of fame.
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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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