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.
KEITH RICHARDSGuitar is easy, all it takes is 5 fingers, 6 strings and 1 a**hole.
More Keith Richards Quotes
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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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If you stay up, you get the songs that everyone else misses because they’re asleep.
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Music is a language that doesn’t speak in particular words. It speaks in emotions, and if it’s in the bones, it’s in the bones.
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The only things Mick and I disagree about is the band, the music and what we do.
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The Stones in a club is still the ultimate rush.
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Everybody’s got a different way of telling a story – and has different stories to tell.
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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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Rock and roll ain’t nothing but jazz with a hard backbeat.
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You have the sun, you have the moon, you have the air that you breathe – and you have the Rolling Stones!
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Songwriting’s a weird game.
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You get onstage and make other people feel happy. Make them feel good.
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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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Everybody starts by imitating their heroes. For me it was Chuck Berry and Muddy Waters.
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Retire? I can’t spell the word. I’d play in a wheelchair.
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Some people think I’m a mythical genius, others think I’m a junkie madman.
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