The rock’s easy, but the roll is another thing.
KEITH RICHARDSIf you say I’m great, thank you very much. But I know what I am. I could be better, man, you know?
More Keith Richards Quotes
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What’s the big deal about still working? Retirement age is sixty-five, and that’s at a normal job – and I ain’t there yet.
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Preaching is tax free. Very little to do with God, a lot to do with money.
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We age not by holding on to youth, but by letting ourselves grow and embracing whatever youthful parts remain.
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Guitar is easy, all it takes is 5 fingers, 6 strings and 1 a**hole.
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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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But I’ve always felt very comfortable on stage, even if I screw up. It always felt like a dog, this is my turf, piss around it. While I’m here, nothing else can happen. All I can do is screw up. Otherwise, have a good time.
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My life is full of broken halos.
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I mean, give me a guitar, give me a piano, give me a broom and string, I wouldn’t get bored anywhere.
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I’m all for a quiet life. I just didn’t get one.
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This is the rock ‘n’ roll life, and you had to invent it as you went along. There was no textbook to say how you operate this machinery.
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To me, life is a wild animal. You hope to deal with it when it leaps at you.
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I occasionally borrow pot from my kids. They do a little weed occasionally. ‘Here, Dad’ – or more likely, ‘Dad, have you got any?’
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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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Music works in mysterious ways. Once it goes in you have no idea what it can do to you.
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