The only things Mick and I disagree about is the band, the music and what we do.
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’m an unpure purist, something like that.
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Some things get better with age. Like me.
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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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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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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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To make a rock’n’roll record, technology is the least important thing.
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Rock and roll ain’t nothing but jazz with a hard backbeat.
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One minute I’m standing at Ronnie Scott’s getting a standing ovation and the next minute, I’m on a marble slab
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Songwriting’s a weird game.
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I never sleep alone. If there is no one to sleep next to, I’ll sleep next to a stuffed animal. It makes me feel secure and safe. It’s a little embarrassing to admit it; I’m an old man now. It’s important to me though.
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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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If you stay up, you get the songs that everyone else misses because they’re asleep.
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I’ve never had inner turmoil about all this. You find a lot of people these days who cannot stand to be alone. You could lock me up in solitary for weeks on end, and I’d keep myself amused.
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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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Preaching is tax free. Very little to do with God, a lot to do with money.
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