Keith Richards Quotes
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Good music comes out of people playing together, knowing what they want to do and going for it. You have to sweat over it and bug it to death. You can't do it by pushing buttons and watching a TV screen.
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There was a knock on our dressing-room door. Our manager shouted, 'Keith! Ron! The Police are here!' Oh, man, we panicked, flushed everything down the john. Then the door opened and it was Stewart Copeland and Sting.
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I don't think rock n' roll songwriters should worry about art. I don't think it comes into it...as far as I'm concerned, Art is just short for Arthur.
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To me, the main thing about living on this planet is to know who the hell you are and be real about it. That's the reason I'm still alive.
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I've never had my hair cut by anybody, I do it all myself.
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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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I mean some doctor told me I had six months to live and I went to their funeral.
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You have the sun, you have the moon, you have the air that you breathe - and you have the Rolling Stones!
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If you say I'm great, thank you very much. But I know what I am. I could be better, man, you know?
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It's great to be here. It's great to be anywhere.
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Rap - so many words, so little said. What rap did that was impressive was to show there are so many tone-deaf people out there. All they need is a drum beat and somebody yelling over it and they're happy. There’s an enormous market for people who can't tell one note from another.
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You don't start to play your guitar thinking you're going to be running an organisation that will maybe generate millions.
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I'd play whenever I could get my hands on an electric guitar; I was trying to pick up rock'n'roll riffs and electric blues-the latest Muddy Waters. I'd spend hours and hours on the same track, back again, and back again.
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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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It's an addiction... and addiction is something I should know something about.
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I mean, give me a guitar, give me a piano, give me a broom and string, I wouldn't get bored anywhere.
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To me, as long as we've known each other, I've always thought Mick's most brilliant thing was that he could work in an area two foot square and give a very exciting performance.
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Everyone talks about rock these days; the problem is they forget about the roll.
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You didn't know whether Chuck Berry was black or white - it was not a concern.
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About myself I have no great illusions. I know what I am. I know what I'm good at. I know what I ain't. I'm always hoping to surprise myself. But I do have a love of music and I do love to communicate it, and that's the best I can do, really. And I can raise a good family, too.
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I look for ambiguity when I'm writing because life is ambiguous.
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To me, my biggest fear is getting a big head, and that is when I get the hammer. Because it's very easy in this game to believe you're something special.
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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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If you're going to kick authority in the teeth, you might as well use both feet.