Love has sold more songs than you’ve had hot dinners.
KEITH RICHARDSI’ve got nothing against daylight. I don’t live totally nocturnally. Only when I feel like it. Which is most of the time.
More Keith Richards Quotes
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It might appear that nothing is happening, but that’s actually when it really happens.
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This is the rock ‘n’ roll life, and you had to invent it as you went along. There was no textbook to say how you operate this machinery.
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No broken hearts, no broken necks.
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Anything you throw yourself into, you better get yourself out of.
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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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But I’ve always felt very comfortable on stage, even if I screw up. It always felt like a dog, this is my turf, piss around it. While I’m here, nothing else can happen. All I can do is screw up. Otherwise, have a good time.
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Some people think I’m a mythical genius, others think I’m a junkie madman.
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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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I read the Bible sometimes, but it bores me to death. I just want to know what other people find so bloody fascinating.
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Everyone talks about rock these days; the problem is they forget about the roll.
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My life is full of broken halos.
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I’ve got nothing against daylight. I don’t live totally nocturnally. Only when I feel like it. Which is most of the time.
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And then I think we realized, like any young guys, that blues are not learned in a monastery. You’ve got to go out there and get your heart broke and then come back and then you can sing the blues.
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Why would you want to be anything else if you’re Mick Jagger?
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I’ve never had my hair cut by anybody, I do it all myself.
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