True friends. Hardest thing to find, but you never look for them – they found you ; you just grow into each other
KEITH RICHARDSYou don’t find a style. A style finds you.
More Keith Richards Quotes
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You’ve got the sun, you’ve got the moon, and you’ve got the Rolling Stones.
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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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But I’m not here just to make records and money. I’m here to say something and to touch other people, sometimes in a cry of desperation: “Do you know this feeling?
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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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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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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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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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Whatever side I take, I know well that I will be blamed.
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Why would you want to be anything else if you’re Mick Jagger?
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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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Rock and roll ain’t nothing but jazz with a hard backbeat.
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Some things get better with age. Like me.
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It’s an addiction and addiction is something I should know something about.
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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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One of the great things about songwrighting; it’s not an intellectual experience.
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