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 RICHARDSTrue friends. Hardest thing to find, but you never look for them – they found you ; you just grow into each other
More Keith Richards Quotes
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I am not doing it just for the money or for you. I am doing it for me.
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Some people think I’m a mythical genius, others think I’m a junkie madman.
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If you stay up, you get the songs that everyone else misses because they’re asleep.
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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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True friends. Hardest thing to find, but you never look for them – they found you ; you just grow into each other
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If you say I’m great, thank you very much. But I know what I am. I could be better, man, you know?
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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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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’ve never had my hair cut by anybody, I do it all myself.
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You can’t accuse me of anything I haven’t already confessed to.
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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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Yes, I’ve been trepanned. That’s quite an interesting experience, especially for my brain surgeon, who saw my thoughts flying around in my brain.
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Songwriting’s a weird game.
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Anything you throw yourself into, you better get yourself out of.
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A painter’s got a canvas. The writer’s got reams of empty paper. A musician has silence.
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