We age not by holding on to youth, but by letting ourselves grow and embracing whatever youthful parts remain.
KEITH RICHARDSOne minute I’m standing at Ronnie Scott’s getting a standing ovation and the next minute, I’m on a marble slab
More Keith Richards Quotes
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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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I consider my job [being a musician] is to have a little idea and nurture it and put it in some form that everybody else can understand and then sort of pass it on. It’s really a passing through. In other words, you receive and you transmit.
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What is life but playing with time?
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Some things get better with age. Like me.
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I’m free of hypochondria– although I’ve got everything else.
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I mean, give me a guitar, give me a piano, give me a broom and string, I wouldn’t get bored anywhere.
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To me, my biggest fear is getting a big head, and that is when I get the hammer. Because it’s very easy in this game to believe you’re something special.
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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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No broken hearts, no broken necks.
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I was number 1 on the who’s likely to die list for 10 years. I was really disappointed when I fell off that list.
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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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Some people think I’m a mythical genius, others think I’m a junkie madman.
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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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Anything you throw yourself into, you better get yourself out of.
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To me, the main thing about living on this planet is to know who the hell you are and be real about it. That’s the reason I’m still alive.
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