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.
KEITH RICHARDSI personally believe that most people that play an instrument would be able to write a few songs here and there. But they say, “I tried, I can’t do it” and give up and don’t try it again; they get too discouraged.
More Keith Richards Quotes
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My life is full of broken halos.
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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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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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But I’m not here just to make records and money. I’m here to say something and to touch other people, sometimes in a cry of desperation: “Do you know this feeling?
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When I listen to what I did under the influence – 10 years of work – I don’t think it either enhanced or impaired me. It didn’t have that much to do with it.
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My father. I snorted my father. He was cremated and I couldn’t resist grinding him up with a little bit of blow.
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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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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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Everybody’s got a different way of telling a story – and has different stories to tell.
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I’m not getting old I’m evolving.
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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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One of the great things about songwrighting; it’s not an intellectual experience.
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Why would you want to be anything else if you’re Mick Jagger?
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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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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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