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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This generation must get deadly serious about the problem of Biblical illiteracy.
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A lot of people, for example, live an anxious life. They don't realize they have a super-high level of anxiety. So we're gonna work on really writing down how anxious you feel at the moment you wake up. There's nothing wrong with it; the point is you learn to evaluate yourself and regulate yourself.
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I think that the rhythm sections, drummers in particular, are the unsuing heroes of the music. It's the rhythm section that has changed the styles from one period to the other.
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Guitars are like women. You'll never get them totally right.
