If you stay up, you get the songs that everyone else misses because they’re asleep.
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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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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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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Retire? I can’t spell the word. I’d play in a wheelchair.
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I’m not getting old I’m evolving.
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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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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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Preaching is tax free. Very little to do with God, a lot to do with money.
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I never thought I was wasted, but I probably was.
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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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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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Everyone talks about rock these days; the problem is they forget about the roll.
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I don’t trust doctors. It’s not to say there ain’t some good ones, but on a general level, no, I wouldn’t trust ’em at all.
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You get onstage and make other people feel happy. Make them feel good.
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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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If you are going to get wasted, then get wasted elegantly.
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