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 RICHARDSI 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.
More Keith Richards Quotes
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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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The public library is the great equaliser.
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I don’t regret nothing.
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One of the great things about songwrighting; it’s not an intellectual experience.
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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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Music is a necessity. After food, air, water and warmth, music is the next necessity of life.
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Everybody’s got a different way of telling a story – and has different stories to tell.
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One minute I’m standing at Ronnie Scott’s getting a standing ovation and the next minute, I’m on a marble slab
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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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The rock’s easy, but the roll is another thing.
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Rock and Roll: Music for the neck downwards.
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I never thought I was wasted, but I probably was.
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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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I achieved everything I wanted to achieve by being in the Rolling Stones and making records.
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Some things get better with age. Like me.
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