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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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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Some things get better with age. Like me.
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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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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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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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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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Women are a beautiful complication, and I look forward to far more beauties and far more complications.
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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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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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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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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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It’s one thing to play a Muddy Waters song. It’s another thing to play with him.
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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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No broken hearts, no broken necks.
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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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One of the great things about songwriting; it's not an intellectual experience
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I haven't stopped smoking...anything...
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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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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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Before Elvis, everything was in black and white. Then came Elvis. Zoom, glorious Technicolor.