The rock’s easy, but the roll is another thing.
KEITH RICHARDSI like it here in Austin. Anybody got a room?
More Keith Richards Quotes
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I was in awe sometimes listening to Mick Taylor . Everything was there in his playing – the melodic touch, a beautiful sustain and a way of reading a song.
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Rock and Roll: Music for the neck downwards.
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Rock and roll ain’t nothing but jazz with a hard backbeat.
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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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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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I never thought I was wasted, but I probably was.
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You can’t accuse me of anything I haven’t already confessed to.
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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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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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Some things get better with age. Like me.
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You’ve got the sun, you’ve got the moon, and you’ve got the Rolling Stones.
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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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Poison’s not bad. It’s a matter of how much.
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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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Why would you want to be anything else if you’re Mick Jagger?
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