Keith Richards Quotes

One of the great things about songwrighting; it's not an intellectual experience

Keith Richards The Rolling Stones

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• Badminton is not a popular sport in India.

  

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• The dearest friend on earth is a mere shadow compared to Jesus Christ.

  

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• A busybody's work is never done.

  

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• You become a parent when you have a baby, no matter how you get there.

  

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• I'm not a good guitar player.

  

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• We must get to the point in our lives. What is the point? To become a new kind of man or woman, having inner command and outer excellence.

  

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• As a real estate investor, you're ultimately accountable to you and your checkbook. Of course, you will need to stay on top of your local coding regulations and ordinances. But once you get the hang of it, you really shouldn't have any problems with ordinances.

  

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• I learned that if you're going to be a troublemaker, you don't want a ton of witnesses, because there's inevitable fallout from living like you're in 'Lord of the Flies.'

  

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• I feel like writing a book there's always a version in your head that's an amazing version, but then you write the version that you can write.

  

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• George Foreman is easier and has the bigger name and have you noticed that Foreman never calls me out or ever mentions my name? He is afraid of me like most fighters are and most people want to forget about Larry Holmes, like he never ever existed.

  

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• I sometimes find reality far more fantastical and unlikely than what I could just make up.

  

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• I think people get excited about someone discovering something that blew their mind when they were younger. I think it makes people kind of nostalgic and happy. That's one of the really great things about the Internet, that it can bring people together in that way of just being interested in the same stuff.

  

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• 'Jaws' was the definitive filmmaking turning point for me. It came out in the summer of '75 and I saw it an obsessive 55 times. They even ran a very embarrassing article about me in the local paper, about the weird kid who's seen 'Jaws' 55 times.

  

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• My co-founder Dylan Smith and I left our junior year of college to move to the Bay Area. To the horror of our friends' parents, we actually had two other friends drop out of college to work on the product. The four of us were just working non-stop growing Box.

  

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• The 'Dangerous' album has producers like Tiny, who to me is very special. Also, Luny Tunes, Nesty La Mente Maestra, Nelly La Arma Secreta, Haze, and El Ingeniero. I wanted to use everyone who makes music in Puerto Rico and beyond to have variety.

  

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• I never work from an outline, and often I don't know how the story will end.

  

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• As you grow older, your music begins to mature and grow older along with you.

  

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• I think trust is the most important thing. If the actors and the director and the crew trust each other and you set up perimeters and boundaries, you give everyone space to do great work.

  

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• I am making things that inspire me with a profound emotion and I am trying to paint them honestly.

  

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• A change fell upon all things. Strange brilliant flowers, star-shaped, burst out upon the trees where no flowers had been before. The tints of the green carpet deepened; and when, one by one, the white daisies shrank away, there sprang up, in place of them, ten by ten of the ruby-red asphodel. And life arose in our paths; for the tall flamingo hitherto unseen, with all gay glowing birds, flaunted his scarlet plumage before us. The golden and silver fish haunted the river.

  

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• It is not empty rhetoric to talk of the Free World.

  

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• For 'Chapters', I decided to let go of my insecurities, found myself some talented R&B producers, and worked with them.

  

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• One of the great things about songwrighting; it's not an intellectual experience

  

  Keith Richards The Rolling Stones
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