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 RICHARDSI’ve got nothing against daylight. I don’t live totally nocturnally. Only when I feel like it. Which is most of the time.
More Keith Richards Quotes
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I was number 1 on the who’s likely to die list for 10 years. I was really disappointed when I fell off that list.
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What Muddy Waters did for us is what we should do for others. It’s the old thing, what you want written on your tombstone as a musician: ‘He passed it on.’
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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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The only things Mick and I disagree about is the band, the music and what we do.
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To me, my biggest fear is getting a big head, and that is when I get the hammer. Because it’s very easy in this game to believe you’re something special.
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No broken hearts, no broken necks.
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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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It might appear that nothing is happening, but that’s actually when it really happens.
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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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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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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 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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I’ve got nothing against daylight. I don’t live totally nocturnally. Only when I feel like it. Which is most of the time.
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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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Everybody’s got a different way of telling a story – and has different stories to tell.
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