Keith Richards Quotes
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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Responsibility is what awaits outside the Eden of Creativity.
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Having people jumping in front of you taking a photo can be unnerving.
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When your focus is social change and not financial change, why wouldn't you want to share that openly? Innovation only succeeds when it's shared.
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That's why editors and publishers will never be obsolete: a reader wants someone with taste and authority to point them in the direction of the good stuff, and to keep the awful stuff away from their door.
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Facts are, directors are not thinking of me; they think I only act in my films, because they're stupid. Or they think I'm a control freak, that I will try to, I don't know, pimp their scripts and just change everything, which I will never do.
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I love corduroy jeans as well as vertical-striped jeans. Both are a fun switch from plain old denim. They can be slimming so long as the stripes aren't too chunky.
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And if out of a million visitors there is even one to whom art means something, that is enough to justify museums.
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If you want to evolve and reinvent yourself, you will need to observe people and explore a lot.
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Childhood is the one prison from which there's no escape, the one sentence from which there's no appeal. We all serve our time.
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I don't know anyone who would be exclusively working on game music, per se.
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That enforced time when you have to switch off, that you're on a plane, is so unusual these days. It's just that thing of not being able to interact with other people through e-mails or social media or whatever. It's crazy how you even notice that you're not able to do that. I find that the kind of traveling - long days, particularly if you go somewhere to do a show, and then traveling again the next day - a lot of people would find pretty challenging, but I find it energizing in a weird way.
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I hate sports. My reaction to the ball is this [kicks soccer ball] Don't kick it back to me. I don't wanna see it again.
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Nickelback walks into a bar...there's no punchline because ruining music isn't funny.
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Rest not. Life is sweeping by; go and dare before you die. Something mighty and sublime, leave behind to conquer time.
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Every band runs its course.
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When I get down, I don't waller around for long.
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If you must tell me your opinions, tell me what you believe in. I have plenty of doubts of my own.
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I don't take myself that seriously when it comes down to that stuff. My drummer is my favorite drummer in the world, and he also happens to be the funniest person you'll meet. He's a constant reminder every time stuff gets a little too heavy, maybe I have a bad show or I'll hit a horrible note on some recorded TV thing or something, and he's like, "Man don't take yourself so seriously - this is a joke, we're playing music." And that's a great thing to keep me grounded at all times. We're not saving lives, but the power does help us.
