Keith Richards Quotes
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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There is a shortage of doctors, and the American Medical Association is aiming to keep it that way.
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The principle of the endless melody is the perpetual becoming of a music that never had any reason for starting, any more than it has any reason for ending.
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Everything you do is an opportunity cost. Learn to say 'No'
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The New York Times is busy sucking the teat of the major studios. They twist themselves into a pretzel when Kumar and Schmumar Go to White Castle Part III. They say, 'Oh, the farts are such a statement about American culture! It's such great satire!' It's bullshit. Troma paved the road for farts! But we don't exist.
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I don't have lights, I don't have assistants, I just go and meet somebody and take a photograph. That's really basic, and that's how I used to work when I was 17 or 18 in Holland.
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Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window. You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything else in the house.
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But the English do not know what surprise is. No one ever turns his head to look at anyone else in the street.
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A negative mind will never give you a positive life.
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If you don't control the borders, it doesn't matter what immigration laws you have.
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When you were a kid, a day was a long time and a year was a long time.
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I am a big believer that eventually everything comes back to you. You get back what you give out.
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Even as technology becomes increasingly critical to the way we live our lives, power our world and defend our shores, the United States has allowed the production of minerals crucial in the creation of these advanced products to slide.
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I'm afraid of habit patterns...It would be too much of a routine if you had to establish definite ways of getting through things. You'd get very bored.
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Sometimes I think the choir gets a little ticked with me because I haven't sung in a long time and I can sing.
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Self-doubt creates the impetus for learning but hinders adept use of previously established skills.
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We don't do 150 date tours because you couldn't keep the intensity and standard we need over that stretch of time. You see bands doing it all the time, playing along, going through the motions, thinking 'Did I water the plants?' We come to each gig fresh and we live that gig, it is full-on, total commitment. It is an hour of pure concentration.
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There's a saying that when you go on traveling tours, you get to know whom the designated jerk is going to be within three days, and if you don't know it by then, you're the jerk.
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I might do a solo album, maybe do covers, or do an acoustic thing. No Sex Pistols tours, nothing!
