Music works in mysterious ways. Once it goes in you have no idea what it can do to you.
KEITH RICHARDSThe Stones in a club is still the ultimate rush.
More Keith Richards Quotes
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I’m all for a quiet life. I just didn’t get one.
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Everybody starts by imitating their heroes. For me it was Chuck Berry and Muddy Waters.
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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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I don’t wave a flag for anything. I’m a musician.
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Nobody wants to get old, but nobody wants to die young either.
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I’m not getting old I’m evolving.
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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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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 can’t accuse me of anything I haven’t already confessed to.
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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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Anything you throw yourself into, you better get yourself out of.
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What is life but playing with time?
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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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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 mean some doctor told me I had six months to live and I went to their funeral.
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