Keith Richards

> Came across this great quote from Keith Richards re:
> rock & roll (NOT Rock!):
>
> Maybe listeners knew a year or 6 months later that the
> beat turned around (in Bitch), but at the moment I
> wasn't conscious of that. It comes so naturally, as
> it's always happened, and it's always given that extra
> kick when the right moment comes back down again.
> That's what rock and roll records are all about. I
> mean, nowadays it's rock music. But rock and roll
> records should be 2:35 minutes long, and it doesn't
> matter if you ramble on longer after that. It should
> be, you know - wang, concise, right there. Rambling on
> and on, blah blah blah, repeating things for no
> point... I mean, rock and roll is in one way a highly
> structured music played in a very unstructured way,
> and it's those things like turning the beat around
> that we'd get hung up on when we were starting out:
> Did you hear what we just did? We just totally turned
> the beat around (laughs). If it's done in conviction,
> if nothing is forced, if it just flows in, then it
> gives quite an extra kick to it.
> - Keith Richards
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