Keith Richards Quotes
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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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Some things get better with age. Like me.
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Everybody thinks you reach a certain age and you're a grownup, but it's not true. Nobody grows up until the day they croak.
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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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I've never tried to achieve anything. I achieved everything I wanted to achieve by being in the Rolling Stones and making records.
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The only new technology that interests me is when it sort of throws me back soundwise. And I can think, "Wow, that means I can go onstage and sound like Scotty Moore now and again!"
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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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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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I was number one on the Who's Likely To Die list for 10 years. I mean, I was really disappointed when I fell off the list.
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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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Before Elvis, everything was in black and white. Then came Elvis. Zoom, glorious Technicolor.
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Another thing to do with the blues is how they were recorded. They were done on the quick, and some of that stuff was made on wire, not even tape, let alone digital.
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It's a privilege just to wake up to a new day.
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Everybody's got a different way of telling a story - and has different stories to tell.
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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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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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You don't find a style. A style finds you...
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To a musician or songwriter, your canvas is silence.
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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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We all have our own personal laboratories. Life is an experiment, and it's just a matter of getting the alchemical or chemical combination right.
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I'd been an expert at taking beatings. Then I had a lucky break where I did a bully in, by total sheer luck. ... One minute I was the mark, and with just one swift move, I put the big man in school down. ... Once he was down, the whole atmosphere in the schoolyard changed. A huge cloud seemed to be lifted from me. ... I'd never been aware the cloud was so large.
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What is life but playing with time?
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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.'