Keith Richards Quotes
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Some people think I'm a mythical genius, others think I'm a junkie madman.
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You don't find a style. A style finds you...
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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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Some things get better with age. Like me.
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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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I am not doing it just for the money or for you.I am doing it for me.
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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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The Stones in a club is still the ultimate rush.
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What Muddy Waters did for us is what we should do for others. It's the old thing, what you want written on your tombstone as a musician: 'He passed it on.'
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This morning on Dartford station a guy I knew at primary school came up to me. He's got every record Chuck Berry made. He is called Mick Jagger.
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The big rules of knife fighting are (a) do not try it at home, and (b) the whole point is never, ever use the blade. It is there to distract your opponent. While he stares at the gleaming steel, you kick his balls to kingdom come--he's all yours. Just a tip!
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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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It’s one thing to play a Muddy Waters song. It’s another thing to play with him.
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One of the great things about songwrighting; it's not an intellectual experience
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What's the big deal about still working? Retirement age is sixty-five, and that's at a normal job - and I ain't there yet.
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I'm an unpure purist, something like that.
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True friends. Hardest thing to find, but you never look for them - they found you ; you just grow into each other...
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Music works in mysterious ways. Once it goes in you have no idea what it can do to you.
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Anything you throw yourself into, you better get yourself out of.
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I haven't stopped smoking...anything...
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I personally believe that most people that play an instrument would be able to write a few songs here and there. But they say, "I tried, I can't do it" and give up and don't try it again; they get too discouraged.
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One of the great things about songwriting; it's not an intellectual experience
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I read the Bible sometimes, but it bores me to death. I just want to know what other people find so bloody fascinating.
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Art is the last thing I'm worried about when I'm writing a song. As far as I'm concerned, art is just short for 'Arthur.'