Keith Richards Quotes
You see, to me, the art of music is listening to it, not playing it. The real art of it is hearing it.
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I came from the theater playing leading roles, and when I started doing film and television, I felt as if I had to start from the bottom.
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Think and grow rich.
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The box office has become global. I think that factors in to the question of how to portray different ethnicities and cultures.
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We just here to do our job.
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One must always maintain one's connection to the past and yet ceaselessly pull away from it.
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When I'm in 'Man vs. Wild' mode, it's not pleasure. Every sensor is firing and I'm on reserve power all the time and I'm digging deep - and that's the magic of it as well, and that's raw and it's great.
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I don't feel comfortable making empty music.
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I am not going to talk about my personal life anymore. You have to learn that lesson sometime.
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It's really not about me. At the end of the day, God willing, I'll have another 40 or 50 years on this planet, and what I'm saying to myself is, 'What do I want to leave here?'
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No man may make another free.
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The way you write a screenplay is that you close your eyes and run the movie in your head and then you write it down.
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You say to yourself: 'What could people, in all these countries, find in my books?' and yet I think we're all the same, anywhere. Everybody is a hero or a dramatic person in their own story if you just know where to look.
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I'm not a good Samaritan, I'm a businessman... The goal is to read and react. If we sign an artist that has potential for a shelf life way out in the distance, then we'll stay. But if not, then we won't.
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I just try to attack the rim as hard as I can. Try to get the crowd pumped up a little bit.
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I knew what type of player I was: a free agent, a small kid who came from a small school.
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My desire has always been to be the leader in an industry.
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There are things about our world that almost by their nature defy our ability to comprehend them. Some people use a religious register to deal with that - they call it God and that's a way of domesticating it.
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Our everyday lives are filled with complex decisions. We long for simplicity and ordinariness.
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A secret is powerful when it is empty.
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If you work hard enough at something, it begins to make itself part of you, even though you do not really like it and know that part isn't real.
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I was not a particularly brave child, I think, because I had a narrative mind, because my mind automatically went to any terrible thing that could happen.
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Anti-Americanism from abroad would not be such a problem if Americans were united in standing up for their own country.
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When you go to a great concert, you feel this arc, almost like the music of a well-chosen set takes you on this trip through emotions and through various forms of intellectual engagement.
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You see, to me, the art of music is listening to it, not playing it. The real art of it is hearing it.
