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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In an open society, no idea can be above scrutiny, just as no people should be beneath dignity.
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Responding to terrorism inevitably implies military consequences. This may shock some people, but these groups must also be dealt with on a military footing. I won't use the word 'combat' to avoid being painted as a crusader.
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If you're paralyzing your face in your 20s and 30s, you're not exercising the muscles that give it strength. My feeling is, laugh, cry, move your face.
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I spent my childhood alone, overweight and ugly, angry at everything, and knowing nothing of a life beyond this sadness.
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I've been into music for a long time. I started playing drums when I was 8 and piano when I was 10, then bass and guitar when I was 18.
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My friends are mostly familiar with music that plays on the mainstream radio.
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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.
