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 RICHARDSLove has sold more songs than you’ve had hot dinners.
More Keith Richards Quotes
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Anything you throw yourself into, you better get yourself out of.
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Songwriting’s a weird game.
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Everybody starts by imitating their heroes. For me it was Chuck Berry and Muddy Waters.
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I occasionally borrow pot from my kids. They do a little weed occasionally. ‘Here, Dad’ – or more likely, ‘Dad, have you got any?’
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But I’m not here just to make records and money. I’m here to say something and to touch other people, sometimes in a cry of desperation: “Do you know this feeling?
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You know, the BBC had not been particularly generous in its deliverance of blues and esoteric kinds of music.
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When you’re 20, you can’t imagine being 30. When you’re 30, you can’t imagine being 40. When you’re 40, you can’t imagine being 100.
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To make a rock’n’roll record, technology is the least important thing.
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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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[John] Belushi was an extreme experience even by my standards.
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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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Music works in mysterious ways. Once it goes in you have no idea what it can do to you.
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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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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 am not doing it just for the money or for you. I am doing it for me.
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