I haven’t stopped smoking; anything.
KEITH RICHARDSEverybody starts by imitating their heroes. For me it was Chuck Berry and Muddy Waters.
More Keith Richards Quotes
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To a musician or songwriter, your canvas is silence.
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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.
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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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Songwriting’s a weird game.
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When I listen to what I did under the influence – 10 years of work – I don’t think it either enhanced or impaired me. It didn’t have that much to do with it.
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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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Everybody’s got a different way of telling a story – and has different stories to tell.
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Poison’s not bad. It’s a matter of how much.
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Some people think I’m a mythical genius, others think I’m a junkie madman.
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Everybody starts by imitating their heroes. For me it was Chuck Berry and Muddy Waters.
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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’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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This is the rock ‘n’ roll life, and you had to invent it as you went along. There was no textbook to say how you operate this machinery.
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When you’re 20, you can’t imagine being 30. When you’re 30, you can’t imagine being 40. When you’re 40, you can’t imagine being 100.
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