You see, to me, the art of music is listening to it, not playing it. The real art of it is hearing it.
KEITH RICHARDSI’ve never turned blue in someone else’s bathroom. I consider that the height of bad manners.
More Keith Richards Quotes
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To me, life is a wild animal. You hope to deal with it when it leaps at you.
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It’s a privilege just to wake up to a new day.
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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 look for ambiguity when I’m writing because life is ambiguous.
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The idea of retiring is like killing yourself. It’s almost like Hari Kari. I intend to live to a 100 and go down in history.
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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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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.
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Everybody starts by imitating their heroes. For me it was Chuck Berry and Muddy Waters.
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Songwriting’s a weird game.
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If you’ve gotta think about being cool, you ain’t cool.
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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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You don’t find a style. A style finds you.
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Why would you want to be anything else if you’re Mick Jagger?
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It’s great to be here. It’s great to be anywhere.
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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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