I achieved everything I wanted to achieve by being in the Rolling Stones and making records.
KEITH RICHARDSGuitar is easy, all it takes is 5 fingers, 6 strings and 1 a**hole.
More Keith Richards Quotes
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Everybody thinks you reach a certain age and you’re a grownup, but it’s not true. Nobody grows up until the day they croak.
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Music works in mysterious ways. Once it goes in you have no idea what it can do to you.
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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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What is life but playing with time?
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I look for ambiguity when I’m writing because life is ambiguous.
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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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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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Let me be clear about this. I don’t have a drug problem. I have a police problem.
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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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I only get ill when I give up drugs. I don’t have a drug problem, I have a police problem.
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To me, my biggest fear is getting a big head, and that is when I get the hammer. Because it’s very easy in this game to believe you’re something special.
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If you’ve gotta think about being cool, you ain’t cool.
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But I’ve always felt very comfortable on stage, even if I screw up. It always felt like a dog, this is my turf, piss around it. While I’m here, nothing else can happen. All I can do is screw up. Otherwise, have a good time.
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You don’t find a style. A style finds you.
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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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