Rock and roll ain’t nothing but jazz with a hard backbeat.
KEITH RICHARDSNobody wants to get old, but nobody wants to die young either.
More Keith Richards Quotes
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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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No broken hearts, no broken necks.
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Some people think I’m a mythical genius, others think I’m a junkie madman.
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If you stay up, you get the songs that everyone else misses because they’re asleep.
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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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You can’t accuse me of anything I haven’t already confessed to.
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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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There’s a demon in me, and he’s still around. Without the dope, we have a bit more of a chat these days.
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I don’t wave a flag for anything. I’m a musician.
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I read the Bible sometimes, but it bores me to death. I just want to know what other people find so bloody fascinating.
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Songwriting’s a weird game.
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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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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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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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Let me be clear about this. I don’t have a drug problem. I have a police problem.
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I was in awe sometimes listening to Mick Taylor . Everything was there in his playing – the melodic touch, a beautiful sustain and a way of reading a song.
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I look for ambiguity when I’m writing because life is ambiguous.
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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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True friends. Hardest thing to find, but you never look for them – they found you ; you just grow into each other
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I’m all for a quiet life. I just didn’t get one.
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You see, to me, the art of music is listening to it, not playing it. The real art of it is hearing it.
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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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I don’t regret nothing.
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If you’ve gotta think about being cool, you ain’t cool.
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Anything you throw yourself into, you better get yourself out of.
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I’m an unpure purist, something like that.
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