Keith Richards Quotes
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It's called the mysterious rhythm of life, ... I can't quite account for it. It's probably an addiction, quite honestly. I need that shot of stage every two or three years.
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To a musician or songwriter, your canvas is silence.
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My life is full of broken halos.
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To me, it's important to prove that this isn't just teenage kids' s**t and you should feel embarrassed when you're over forty and still doing it.
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I'm not getting old I'm evolving.
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Some people think I'm a mythical genius, others think I'm a junkie madman.
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There's a certain moment when you realize that you've actually just left the planet for a bit and that nobody can touch you. . .When it works, baby, you've got wings.
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I've got nothing against daylight. I don't live totally nocturnally. Only when I feel like it. Which is most of the time.
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It's a privilege just to wake up to a new day.
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A painter's got a canvas. The writer's got reams of empty paper. A musician has silence.
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Hey, we just enjoy it. I think we think we're getting the hang of this thing, you know?
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And then I think we realized, like any young guys, that blues are not learned in a monastery. You've got to go out there and get your heart broke and then come back and then you can sing the blues.
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One guy can ruin an instrument. Jimi Hendrix, bless his heart - how I wish he was still around - almost inadvertently ruined guitar. Because he was the only cat who could do it like that. Everybody else just screwed it up, and thought wailing away (on the guitar) is the answer. But it ain't; you've got to be a Jimi to do that, you've got to be one of the special cats.
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To me, life is a wild animal. You hope to deal with it when it leaps at you.
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I only get ill when I give up drugs... I don't have a drug problem, I have a police problem.
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The Stones in a club is still the ultimate rush.
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Well, I'm not putting death on the agenda. I don't want to see my old friend Lucifer just yet. He's the guy I'm gonna see, isn't it? I'm not going to the Other Place, let's face it.
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I never sleep alone. If there is no one to sleep next to, I'll sleep next to a stuffed animal. It makes me feel secure and safe. It's a little embarrassing to admit it; I'm an old man now. It's important to me though.
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Rock and roll ain't nothing but jazz with a hard backbeat.
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I was in awe sometimes listening to Mick Taylor . Everything was there in his playing - the melodic touch, a beautiful sustain and a way of reading a song.
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A gut-string classical Spanish guitar, a sweet, lovely little lady. The smell of it. Even now, to open a guitar case, when it's an old wooden guitar, I could crawl in and close the lid.
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Let me be clear about this. I don't have a drug problem. I have a police problem.
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I am not doing it just for the money or for you.I am doing it for me.
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You can't accuse me of anything I haven't already confessed to.