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.
KEITH RICHARDSI like it here in Austin. Anybody got a room?
More Keith Richards Quotes
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If you’re cool, you don’t know nothing about it. It just is, or you ain’t.
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We age not by holding on to youth, but by letting ourselves grow and embracing whatever youthful parts remain.
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Nobody wants to get old, but nobody wants to die young either.
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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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Music works in mysterious ways. Once it goes in you have no idea what it can do to you.
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But 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?
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Poison’s not bad. It’s a matter of how much.
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If you’re going to kick authority in the teeth, you might as well use both feet.
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You don’t find a style. A style finds you.
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My life is full of broken halos.
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One of the great things about songwrighting; it’s not an intellectual experience.
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No broken hearts, no broken necks.
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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 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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Guitar is easy, all it takes is 5 fingers, 6 strings and 1 a**hole.
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