Songwriting’s a weird game.
KEITH RICHARDSBut 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?
More Keith Richards Quotes
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I achieved everything I wanted to achieve by being in the Rolling Stones and making records.
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It might appear that nothing is happening, but that’s actually when it really happens.
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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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If you’re cool, you don’t know nothing about it. It just is, or you ain’t.
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It’s an addiction and addiction is something I should know something about.
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Music is a necessity. After food, air, water and warmth, music is the next necessity of life.
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I don’t trust doctors. It’s not to say there ain’t some good ones, but on a general level, no, I wouldn’t trust ’em at all.
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The idea of retiring is like killing yourself. It’s almost like Hari Kari. I intend to live to a 100 and go down in history.
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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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Nobody wants to get old, but nobody wants to die young either.
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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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Everybody starts by imitating their heroes. For me it was Chuck Berry and Muddy Waters.
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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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You have the sun, you have the moon, you have the air that you breathe – and you have the Rolling Stones!
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I don’t wave a flag for anything. I’m a musician.
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