Music is a necessity. After food, air, water and warmth, music is the next necessity of life.
KEITH RICHARDSI looked upon myself, in a sort of romantic and silly way, as like a laboratory.
More Keith Richards Quotes
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Retire? I can’t spell the word. I’d play in a wheelchair.
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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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Everyone talks about rock these days; the problem is they forget about the roll.
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If you are going to get wasted, then get wasted elegantly.
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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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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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The only things Mick and I disagree about is the band, the music and what we do.
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When you’re 20, you can’t imagine being 30. When you’re 30, you can’t imagine being 40. When you’re 40, you can’t imagine being 100.
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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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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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A painter’s got a canvas. The writer’s got reams of empty paper. A musician has silence.
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The rock’s easy, but the roll is another thing.
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Why would you want to be anything else if you’re Mick Jagger?
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It’s a privilege just to wake up to a new day.
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Rock and roll ain’t nothing but jazz with a hard backbeat.
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