I’m not getting old I’m evolving.
KEITH RICHARDSI 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.
More Keith Richards Quotes
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It’s one thing to play a Muddy Waters song. It’s another thing to play with him.
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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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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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To a musician or songwriter, your canvas is silence.
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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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It might appear that nothing is happening, but that’s actually when it really happens.
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We age not by holding on to youth, but by letting ourselves grow and embracing whatever youthful parts remain.
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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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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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The public library is the great equaliser.
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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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One of the great things about songwrighting; it’s not an intellectual experience.
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I have no idea what the audience makes of me.
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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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Women are a beautiful complication, and I look forward to far more beauties and far more complications.
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