True friends. Hardest thing to find, but you never look for them – they found you ; you just grow into each other
KEITH RICHARDSGeorge Jones is a national treasure and should be treated accordingly. A unique style so often emulated even inadvertently.
More Keith Richards Quotes
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It’s an addiction and addiction is something I should know something about.
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Anything you throw yourself into, you better get yourself out of.
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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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Nobody wants to get old, but nobody wants to die young either.
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If you stay up, you get the songs that everyone else misses because they’re asleep.
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You get onstage and make other people feel happy. Make them feel good.
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Retire? I can’t spell the word. I’d play in a wheelchair.
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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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Preaching is tax free. Very little to do with God, a lot to do with money.
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You have the sun, you have the moon, you have the air that you breathe – and you have the Rolling Stones!
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I’ve never turned blue in someone else’s bathroom. I consider that the height of bad manners.
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It might appear that nothing is happening, but that’s actually when it really happens.
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I’ve never had a problem with drugs. I’ve had problems with the police.
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It’s one thing to play a Muddy Waters song. It’s another thing to play with him.
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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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I haven’t stopped smoking; anything.
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Love has sold more songs than you’ve had hot dinners.
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To make a rock’n’roll record, technology is the least important thing.
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I looked upon myself, in a sort of romantic and silly way, as like a laboratory.
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Everybody starts by imitating their heroes. For me it was Chuck Berry and Muddy Waters.
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The rock’s easy, but the roll is another thing.
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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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You can’t accuse me of anything I haven’t already confessed to.
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Everybody’s got a different way of telling a story – and has different stories to tell.
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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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Music works in mysterious ways. Once it goes in you have no idea what it can do to you.
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