The public library is the great equaliser.
KEITH RICHARDSI don’t encourage anybody to do what I do, you know? Why should you? More for me!
More Keith Richards Quotes
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You don’t find a style. A style finds you.
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Retire? I can’t spell the word. I’d play in a wheelchair.
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I’m free of hypochondria– although I’ve got everything else.
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What is life but playing with time?
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I’ve never had a problem with drugs. I’ve had problems with the police.
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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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You know, the BBC had not been particularly generous in its deliverance of blues and esoteric kinds of music.
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Yes, I’ve been trepanned. That’s quite an interesting experience, especially for my brain surgeon, who saw my thoughts flying around in my brain.
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And then I think we realized, like any young guys, that blues are not learned in a monastery. You’ve got to go out there and get your heart broke and then come back and then you can sing the blues.
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We all have our own personal laboratories. Life is an experiment, and it’s just a matter of getting the alchemical or chemical combination right.
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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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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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No broken hearts, no broken necks.
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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 am not doing it just for the money or for you. I am doing it for me.
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I look for ambiguity when I’m writing because life is ambiguous.
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If you say I’m great, thank you very much. But I know what I am. I could be better, man, you know?
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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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Nobody wants to get old, but nobody wants to die young either.
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Anything you throw yourself into, you better get yourself out of.
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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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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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Poison’s not bad. It’s a matter of how much.
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What’s the big deal about still working? Retirement age is sixty-five, and that’s at a normal job – and I ain’t there yet.
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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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George Jones is a national treasure and should be treated accordingly. A unique style so often emulated even inadvertently.
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