If you’ve gotta think about being cool, you ain’t cool.
KEITH RICHARDSMusic is a necessity. After food, air, water and warmth, music is the next necessity of life.
More Keith Richards Quotes
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What’s the big deal about still working? Retirement age is sixty-five, and that’s at a normal job – and I ain’t there yet.
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Rock and Roll: Music for the neck downwards.
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Some things get better with age. Like me.
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I’m not getting old I’m evolving.
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I 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.
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Songwriting’s a weird game.
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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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It’s one thing to play a Muddy Waters song. It’s another thing to play with him.
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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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Everyone talks about rock these days; the problem is they forget about the roll.
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I haven’t stopped smoking; anything.
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I looked upon myself, in a sort of romantic and silly way, as like a laboratory.
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Let me be clear about this. I don’t have a drug problem. I have a police problem.
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I’ve never had a problem with drugs. I’ve had problems with the police.
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Retire? I can’t spell the word. I’d play in a wheelchair.
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