Keith Richards Quotes
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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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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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Some things get better with age. Like me.
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You don't find a style. A style finds you...
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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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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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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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I am not doing it just for the money or for you.I am doing it for me.
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One of the great things about songwrighting; it's not an intellectual experience
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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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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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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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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.'
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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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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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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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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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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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Music works in mysterious ways. Once it goes in you have no idea what it can do to you.
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No broken hearts, no broken necks.
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I haven't stopped smoking...anything...
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Anything you throw yourself into, you better get yourself out of.