I’ve never had inner turmoil about all this. You find a lot of people these days who cannot stand to be alone. You could lock me up in solitary for weeks on end, and I’d keep myself amused.
KEITH RICHARDSEverybody’s got a different way of telling a story – and has different stories to tell.
More Keith Richards Quotes
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We age not by holding on to youth, but by letting ourselves grow and embracing whatever youthful parts remain.
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I was in awe sometimes listening to Mick Taylor . Everything was there in his playing – the melodic touch, a beautiful sustain and a way of reading a song.
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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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Preaching is tax free. Very little to do with God, a lot to do with money.
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This is the rock ‘n’ roll life, and you had to invent it as you went along. There was no textbook to say how you operate this machinery.
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Anything you throw yourself into, you better get yourself out of.
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You get onstage and make other people feel happy. Make them feel good.
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You see, to me, the art of music is listening to it, not playing it. The real art of it is hearing it.
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I never thought I was wasted, but I probably was.
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The public library is the great equaliser.
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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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If you’re going to kick authority in the teeth, you might as well use both feet.
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Whatever side I take, I know well that I will be blamed.
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I’m free of hypochondria– although I’ve got everything else.
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