To me, the main thing about living on this planet is to know who the hell you are and be real about it. That’s the reason I’m still alive.
KEITH RICHARDSThe Stones in a club is still the ultimate rush.
More Keith Richards Quotes
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I achieved everything I wanted to achieve by being in the Rolling Stones and making records.
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The public library is the great equaliser.
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I don’t encourage anybody to do what I do, you know? Why should you? More for me!
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Songwriting’s a weird game.
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I’m all for a quiet life. I just didn’t get one.
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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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The only things Mick and I disagree about is the band, the music and what we do.
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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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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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My life is full of broken halos.
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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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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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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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Music is a necessity. After food, air, water and warmth, music is the next necessity of life.
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