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.
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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I like it here in Austin. Anybody got a room?
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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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What is life but playing with time?
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I’m not getting old I’m evolving.
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It’s an addiction and addiction is something I should know something about.
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And then I think we realized, like any young guys, that blues are not learned in a monastery. You’ve got to go out there and get your heart broke and then come back and then you can sing the blues.
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Guitar is easy, all it takes is 5 fingers, 6 strings and 1 a**hole.
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I don’t encourage anybody to do what I do, you know? Why should you? More for me!
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I looked upon myself, in a sort of romantic and silly way, as like a laboratory.
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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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The rock’s easy, but the roll is another thing.
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I never thought I was wasted, but I probably was.
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Rock and roll ain’t nothing but jazz with a hard backbeat.
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One of the great things about songwrighting; it’s not an intellectual experience.
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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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