Some things get better with age. Like me.
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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A painter’s got a canvas. The writer’s got reams of empty paper. A musician has silence.
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I’m an unpure purist, something like that.
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I consider my job [being a musician] is to have a little idea and nurture it and put it in some form that everybody else can understand and then sort of pass it on. It’s really a passing through. In other words, you receive and you transmit.
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No broken hearts, no broken necks.
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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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Rock and roll ain’t nothing but jazz with a hard backbeat.
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If you stay up, you get the songs that everyone else misses because they’re asleep.
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Some people think I’m a mythical genius, others think I’m a junkie madman.
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I mean, give me a guitar, give me a piano, give me a broom and string, I wouldn’t get bored anywhere.
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The rock’s easy, but the roll is another thing.
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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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I’m not getting old I’m evolving.
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Love has sold more songs than you’ve had hot dinners.
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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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I’ve never had a problem with drugs. I’ve had problems with the police.
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