I’ve never had inner turmoil about all this. You find a lot of people these days who cannot stand to be alone. You could lock me up in solitary for weeks on end, and I’d keep myself amused.
KEITH RICHARDSMy life is full of broken halos.
More Keith Richards Quotes
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Rock and Roll: Music for the neck downwards.
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Love has sold more songs than you’ve had hot dinners.
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I never thought I was wasted, but I probably was.
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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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To me, life is a wild animal. You hope to deal with it when it leaps at you.
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I’ve never had my hair cut by anybody, I do it all myself.
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One minute I’m standing at Ronnie Scott’s getting a standing ovation and the next minute, I’m on a marble slab
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I’ve got nothing against daylight. I don’t live totally nocturnally. Only when I feel like it. Which is most of the time.
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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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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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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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I looked upon myself, in a sort of romantic and silly way, as like a laboratory.
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To a musician or songwriter, your canvas is silence.
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I don’t regret nothing.
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The idea of retiring is like killing yourself. It’s almost like Hari Kari. I intend to live to a 100 and go down in history.
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If you stay up, you get the songs that everyone else misses because they’re asleep.
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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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Why would you want to be anything else if you’re Mick Jagger?
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If you don’t know the blues there’s no point in picking up the guitar and playing rock and roll or any other form of popular music.
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When you are growing up there are two institutional places that affect you most powerfully: the church, which belongs to God, and the public library, which belongs to you.
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Music is a language that doesn’t speak in particular words. It speaks in emotions, and if it’s in the bones, it’s in the bones.
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The Stones in a club is still the ultimate rush.
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I’m not getting old I’m evolving.
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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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I’m an unpure purist, something like that.
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