Keith Richards Quotes
I achieved everything I wanted to achieve by being in the Rolling Stones and making records.
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My label in Toronto was 'Stand Pat' and I think that was a fair assessment. I tried to be patient, but if a trade came along - big or small - that I thought should be made, I would make it.
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Money is not everything. We don't need billions and trillions of dollars.
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You have to be a crazy guy and a little eccentric to be very successful.
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My dad worked several jobs to pay for my expense in skating.
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I was the kid who never won the races... I wasn't on the list of the high-achieving.
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A bird cannot fly with one wing only. Human space flight cannot develop any further without the active participation of women.
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Traveling is one of few zones of experience where you are not directly plugged into the world around you. You're not part of the society you're passing through.
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Everything that I do to my own hair and makeup I learned from professionals.
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I approach things from my feeling first. I have to get a feel for the character. I'll do that through music; I'll do it through what is naturally popping up for me when I read the script. My ideas or whatever the occupation of the character might be.
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My dad has actually really influenced me musically. I have a weird love for '80s and '90s music. A lot of people are like, 'Are you serious? It's so lame.' But my dad always plays that in the car whenever we're together.
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We want a money that some government mandarin can't just whisk into existence with a pen stroke.
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Withholding information that would get innocent people killed was the right thing to do, not a journalistic sin.
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I think seeing some of the past can be helpful, especially if you're into crime solving.
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Vanity is as old as the mammoth.
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I am the result of the good choices I've made and the bad choices.
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Every book I've written has been a different attempt to understand something, and the success or failure of the previous one is irrelevant. I write the book I want.
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All these people who scream about Kashmir being an armed camp are in fact responsible for keeping it that way.
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People who have what they want are fond of telling people who haven't what they want that they really don't want it.
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I tell people, 'I don't make music, I make worlds.'
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I am only satisfied insofar as I feel 'Broadway Boogie Woogie' is a definite progress, but even about this picture I am not quite satisfied. There is still too much of the old in it.
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The fact that we know every show can be downloaded makes it a challenge for us. Most bands play the same 14 songs night after night. Our set lists vary drastically, and we keep a log of every set we've played. We try to make every night a different experience.
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Hollywood, that whole industry, is a lot like a really small town. You bump into the same people all the time. I think Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon can be played with anyone and everyone in Hollywood.
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I achieved everything I wanted to achieve by being in the Rolling Stones and making records.
