Why would you want to be anything else if you’re Mick Jagger?
KEITH RICHARDSRock and roll ain’t nothing but jazz with a hard backbeat.
More Keith Richards Quotes
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Love has sold more songs than you’ve had hot dinners.
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Songwriting’s a weird game.
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You don’t find a style. A style finds you.
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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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I only get ill when I give up drugs. I don’t have a drug problem, I have a police problem.
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I don’t wave a flag for anything. I’m a musician.
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We all have our own personal laboratories. Life is an experiment, and it’s just a matter of getting the alchemical or chemical combination right.
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I looked upon myself, in a sort of romantic and silly way, as like a laboratory.
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I never plan anything, which is probably the difference between Mick and myself. Mick needs to know what he’s gonna do tomorrow and I’m just happy to wake up to see who’s hanging around. Mick’s rock and I’m roll.
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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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It’s one thing to play a Muddy Waters song. It’s another thing to play with him.
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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 don’t regret nothing.
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You get onstage and make other people feel happy. Make them feel good.
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I’ve never had my hair cut by anybody, I do it all myself.
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