Keith Richards Quotes
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I'm an unpure purist, something like that.
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One of the great things about songwriting; it's not an intellectual experience
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Before Elvis, everything was in black and white. Then came Elvis. Zoom, glorious Technicolor.
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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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It might appear that nothing is happening, but that's actually when it really happens.
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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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You see, to me, the art of music is listening to it, not playing it. The real art of it is hearing it.
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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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Everybody's got a different way of telling a story - and has different stories to tell.
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John Belushi was an extreme experience even by my standards.
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I've never turned blue in someone else's bathroom. I consider that the height of bad manners.
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I don't know if people in New York recognize me or not. I'm not really conscious of it. If somebody stops me, then I suddenly realize that people are looking at me, but other times they may be doing it and I don't even know because I'm engrossed in something else.
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Poison's not bad. It's a matter of how much.
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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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Everything they’d been brought up not to do, they could do at a rock-and-roll show.
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What is life but playing with time?
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You're sitting with some guys, and you're playing and you go, "Ooh, yeah!" That feeling is worth more than anything. 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. You're elevated because you're with a bunch of guys that want to do the same thing as you. And when it works, baby, you've got wings. You know you've been somewhere most people will never get; you've been to a special place.
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Treat each guitar track-and each song-completely different. For example, if I'm using a certain amp and guitar on one track, I'll deliberately use something else for the next tune or overdub.
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I don't wave a flag for anything. I'm a musician.
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Fame has killed more very talented guys than drugs. Jimi Hendrix didn't die of an overdose, he died of fame.
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If you're cool, you don't know nothing about it. It just is, or you ain't.
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I don't regret nuthin.
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I'm all for a quiet life. I just didn't get one.
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In fact, I take the view that God, in his infinite wisdom, didn't bother to spring for two joints - heaven and hell. They're the same place, but heaven is when you get everything you want and you meet Mummy and Daddy and your best friends and you all have a hug and a kiss and play your harps. Hell is the same place - no fire and brimstone - but they just all pass by and don't see you. There's nothing, no recognition. You're waving, “It's me, your father,” but you're invisible. You're on a cloud, you've got your harp, but you can't play with nobody because they don't see you. That's hell.