It’s great to be here. It’s great to be anywhere.
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 never had a problem with drugs. I’ve had problems with the police.
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The Stones in a club is still the ultimate rush.
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I’m free of hypochondria– although I’ve got everything else.
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I looked upon myself, in a sort of romantic and silly way, as like a laboratory.
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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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I’ve never had my hair cut by anybody, I do it all myself.
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One of the great things about songwrighting; it’s not an intellectual experience.
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You know, the BBC had not been particularly generous in its deliverance of blues and esoteric kinds of music.
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To me, my biggest fear is getting a big head, and that is when I get the hammer. Because it’s very easy in this game to believe you’re something special.
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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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You don’t find a style. A style finds you.
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It might appear that nothing is happening, but that’s actually when it really happens.
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I like it here in Austin. Anybody got a room?
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Nobody wants to get old, but nobody wants to die young either.
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Whatever side I take, I know well that I will be blamed.
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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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I achieved everything I wanted to achieve by being in the Rolling Stones and making records.
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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’m all for a quiet life. I just didn’t get one.
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To a musician or songwriter, your canvas is silence.
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Rock and Roll: Music for the neck downwards.
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Everybody’s got a different way of telling a story – and has different stories to tell.
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I look for ambiguity when I’m writing because life is ambiguous.
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I’ve never turned blue in someone else’s bathroom. I consider that the height of bad manners.
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What is life but playing with time?
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Everyone talks about rock these days; the problem is they forget about the roll.
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