Nobody wants to get old, but nobody wants to die young either.
KEITH RICHARDSWhen 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.
More Keith Richards Quotes
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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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I have no idea what the audience makes of me.
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I’m not getting old I’m evolving.
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No broken hearts, no broken necks.
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When I listen to what I did under the influence – 10 years of work – I don’t think it either enhanced or impaired me. It didn’t have that much to do with it.
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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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There’s a demon in me, and he’s still around. Without the dope, we have a bit more of a chat these days.
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Rock and roll ain’t nothing but jazz with a hard backbeat.
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I’m an unpure purist, something like that.
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My life is full of broken halos.
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I never plan anything, which is probably the difference between Mick and myself. Mick needs to know what he’s gonna do tomorrow and I’m just happy to wake up to see who’s hanging around. Mick’s rock and I’m roll.
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Everyone talks about rock these days; the problem is they forget about the roll.
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The public library is the great equaliser.
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But I’m not here just to make records and money. I’m here to say something and to touch other people, sometimes in a cry of desperation: “Do you know this feeling?
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Guitar is easy, all it takes is 5 fingers, 6 strings and 1 a**hole.
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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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I don’t trust doctors. It’s not to say there ain’t some good ones, but on a general level, no, I wouldn’t trust ’em at all.
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But I’ve always felt very comfortable on stage, even if I screw up. It always felt like a dog, this is my turf, piss around it. While I’m here, nothing else can happen. All I can do is screw up. Otherwise, have a good time.
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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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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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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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You don’t find a style. A style finds you.
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Songwriting’s a weird game.
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It might appear that nothing is happening, but that’s actually when it really happens.
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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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Rock and Roll: Music for the neck downwards.
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