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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I wouldn't warm to Chuck Berry even if I was cremated next to him.
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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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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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Whatever side I take, I know well that I will be blamed.
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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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Some people think I'm a mythical genius, others think I'm a junkie madman.
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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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It's a privilege just to wake up to a new day.
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The Stones in a club is still the ultimate rush.
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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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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 only get ill when I give up drugs... I don't have a drug problem, I have a police problem.
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Rock and roll ain't nothing but jazz with a hard backbeat.
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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 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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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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Let me be clear about this. I don't have a drug problem. I have a police problem.
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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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Women are a beautiful complication, and I look forward to far more beauties and far more complications.
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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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One of the great things about songwriting; it's not an intellectual experience
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There's a demon in me, and he's still around. Without the dope, we have a bit more of a chat these days.
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One of the great things about songwrighting; it's not an intellectual experience