My life is full of broken halos.
KEITH RICHARDSYou see, to me, the art of music is listening to it, not playing it. The real art of it is hearing it.
More Keith Richards Quotes
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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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I never plan anything, which is probably the difference between Mick and myself. Mick needs to know what he’s gonna do tomorrow and I’m just happy to wake up to see who’s hanging around. Mick’s rock and I’m roll.
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Poison’s not bad. It’s a matter of how much.
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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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If you say I’m great, thank you very much. But I know what I am. I could be better, man, you know?
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One of the great things about songwrighting; it’s not an intellectual experience.
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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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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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If you’re cool, you don’t know nothing about it. It just is, or you ain’t.
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To a musician or songwriter, your canvas is silence.
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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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Why would you want to be anything else if you’re Mick Jagger?
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Everybody thinks you reach a certain age and you’re a grownup, but it’s not true. Nobody grows up until the day they croak.
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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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