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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.

Keith Richards

No broken hearts, no broken necks.
KEITH RICHARDS

Break Heart Broken Neck
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.
KEITH RICHARDS

Age Growth Imagination Yourself
I’m not getting old I’m evolving.
KEITH RICHARDS

Evolution Myself Old
Fame has killed more very talented guys than drugs. Jimi Hendrix didn’t die of an overdose, he died of fame.
KEITH RICHARDS

Death Fame Kill Talent
I 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.
KEITH RICHARDS

Ideas Job Myself Nurture Understand Word
Let me be clear about this. I don’t have a drug problem. I have a police problem.
KEITH RICHARDS

Drugs Police Problem
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.
KEITH RICHARDS

Invention Life Machine Operation Rock
I am not doing it just for the money or for you. I am doing it for me.
KEITH RICHARDS

Money Myself Yourself
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.
KEITH RICHARDS

Bone Emotion Language Music Talk Word
Women are a beautiful complication, and I look forward to far more beauties and far more complications.
KEITH RICHARDS

Beautiful Complication Myself Woman
You don’t find a style. A style finds you.
KEITH RICHARDS

Finding Style Yourself
Guitar is easy, all it takes is 5 fingers, 6 strings and 1 a**hole.
KEITH RICHARDS

Guitar Instrument Musician
It’s great to be here. It’s great to be anywhere.
KEITH RICHARDS

Existence Gratitude Greatness
A painter’s got a canvas. The writer’s got reams of empty paper. A musician has silence.
KEITH RICHARDS

Canvas Musician Painter Paper Silence
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.
KEITH RICHARDS

Brain Experience Interesting Myself Quite Thinking
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 RICHARDS

Alone End Myself People Stand

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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