I’m an unpure purist, something like that.
KEITH RICHARDSThe public library is the great equaliser.
More Keith Richards Quotes
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Preaching is tax free. Very little to do with God, a lot to do with money.
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I read the Bible sometimes, but it bores me to death. I just want to know what other people find so bloody fascinating.
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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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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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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.
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If you’re cool, you don’t know nothing about it. It just is, or you ain’t.
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A painter’s got a canvas. The writer’s got reams of empty paper. A musician has silence.
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I’ve never had my hair cut by anybody, I do it all myself.
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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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Some things get better with age. Like me.
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It might appear that nothing is happening, but that’s actually when it really happens.
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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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If you are going to get wasted, then get wasted elegantly.
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I’m not getting old I’m evolving.
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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 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.
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Fame has killed more very talented guys than drugs. Jimi Hendrix didn’t die of an overdose, he died of fame.
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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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True friends. Hardest thing to find, but you never look for them – they found you ; you just grow into each other
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[John] Belushi was an extreme experience even by my standards.
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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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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 stay up, you get the songs that everyone else misses because they’re asleep.
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It’s a privilege just to wake up to a new day.
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The electric guitar was vital in helping what I’ve achieved where would I be without it? Playing awfully quietly, for a start.
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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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