You don’t find a style. A style finds you.
KEITH RICHARDSThis 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.
More Keith Richards Quotes
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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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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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Everybody starts by imitating their heroes. For me it was Chuck Berry and Muddy Waters.
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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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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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Everybody’s got a different way of telling a story – and has different stories to tell.
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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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I don’t encourage anybody to do what I do, you know? Why should you? More for me!
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Retire? I can’t spell the word. I’d play in a wheelchair.
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What Muddy Waters did for us is what we should do for others. It’s the old thing, what you want written on your tombstone as a musician: ‘He passed it on.’
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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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The Stones in a club is still the ultimate rush.
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What is life but playing with time?
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You get onstage and make other people feel happy. Make them feel good.
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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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