Keith Richards Quotes
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Songwriting's a weird game. I never intended to become one - I fell into this by mistake, and I can't get out of it. It fascinates me. I like to point out the rawer points of life.
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And it was a very, very fruitful and great relationship between the Stones and The Beatles. It was very, very friendly.
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You know, the BBC had not been particularly generous in its deliverance of blues and esoteric kinds of music.
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There's just certain styles of playing that you do play in your own way. Maybe it's in the way your fingers bend, for all I know. And so whenever you pick up the guitar it's not so much the sound of the instrument itself, it's like the ting that you add onto it-the attitude.
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I've never had inner turmoil about all this. You find a lot of people these days who cannot stand to be alone. You could lock me up in solitary for weeks on end, and I'd keep myself amused.
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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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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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I like it here in Austin. Anybody got a room?
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One minute I'm standing at Ronnie Scott's getting a standing ovation and the next minute, I'm on a marble slab...
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If you're gonna get wasted, get wasted elegantly.
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Some of my most outrageous nights- I can only believe actually happened because of corroborating evidence. No wonder I'm famous for partying! The ultimate party- if it's any good- you can't remember it.
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What interested me about Chuck Berry was the way he could step out of the rhythm part with such ease, throwing in a nice, simple riff, and then drop straight into the feel of it again. We used to play a lot more rhythm stuff. We'd do away with the differences between lead and rhythm guitar. You can't go into a shop and ask for a "lead guitar". You're a guitar player, and you play a guitar.
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If you are going to get wasted, then get wasted elegantly.
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Everybody starts by imitating their heroes. For me it was Chuck Berry and Muddy Waters.
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There are certain guys that are band players and there's certain guys that ain't. If there's anybody lazier than me, it's Eric (Clapton).
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I can sustain the impetus over the long tours we do is by feeding off the energy that we get back from an audience. That's my fuel. All i've got is this burning energy, especially when i've got a guitar in my hands.
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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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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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I don't encourage anybody to do what I do, you know? Why should you? More for me!
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The electric guitar meant that you could have a band with a drummer and a couple of guitars. And that put a lot of horn players out of work.
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The electric guitar was vital in helping what I've achieved where would I be without it? Playing awfully quietly, for a start.
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Most guys I know are assholes. I have some great asshole friends, but that's not the point. Friendship has got nothing to do with that. It's can you hang, can you talk about this without any feeling of distance between you? Friendship is the diminishing of distance between people. That's what friendship is, and to me it's one of the most important things in the world.
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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 a problem with drugs. I've had problems with the police.