Everybody’s got a different way of telling a story – and has different stories to tell.
KEITH RICHARDSEverybody starts by imitating their heroes. For me it was Chuck Berry and Muddy Waters.
More Keith Richards Quotes
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I’m not getting old I’m evolving.
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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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Music is a necessity. After food, air, water and warmth, music is the next necessity of life.
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I only get ill when I give up drugs. I don’t have a drug problem, I have a police problem.
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You get onstage and make other people feel happy. Make them feel good.
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You know, the BBC had not been particularly generous in its deliverance of blues and esoteric kinds of music.
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Preaching is tax free. Very little to do with God, a lot to do with money.
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There’s a demon in me, and he’s still around. Without the dope, we have a bit more of a chat these days.
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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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I mean some doctor told me I had six months to live and I went to their funeral.
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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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What is life but playing with time?
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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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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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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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