Everyone talks about rock these days; the problem is they forget about the roll.
KEITH RICHARDSRock and roll ain’t nothing but jazz with a hard backbeat.
More Keith Richards Quotes
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Fame has killed more very talented guys than drugs. Jimi Hendrix didn’t die of an overdose, he died of fame.
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If you stay up, you get the songs that everyone else misses because they’re asleep.
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The Stones in a club is still the ultimate rush.
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It’s great to be here. It’s great to be anywhere.
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Music works in mysterious ways. Once it goes in you have no idea what it can do to you.
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Some people think I’m a mythical genius, others think I’m a junkie madman.
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I look for ambiguity when I’m writing because life is ambiguous.
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Nobody wants to get old, but nobody wants to die young either.
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Guitar is easy, all it takes is 5 fingers, 6 strings and 1 a**hole.
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Yes, I’ve been trepanned. That’s quite an interesting experience, especially for my brain surgeon, who saw my thoughts flying around in my brain.
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You see, to me, the art of music is listening to it, not playing it. The real art of it is hearing it.
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Everybody starts by imitating their heroes. For me it was Chuck Berry and Muddy Waters.
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One of the great things about songwrighting; it’s not an intellectual experience.
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If you don’t know the blues there’s no point in picking up the guitar and playing rock and roll or any other form of popular music.
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I don’t wave a flag for anything. I’m a musician.
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