I mean some doctor told me I had six months to live and I went to their funeral.
KEITH RICHARDSI’m an unpure purist, something like that.
More Keith Richards Quotes
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Love has sold more songs than you’ve had hot dinners.
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Whatever side I take, I know well that I will be blamed.
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If you stay up, you get the songs that everyone else misses because they’re asleep.
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One of the great things about songwrighting; it’s not an intellectual experience.
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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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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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To me, life is a wild animal. You hope to deal with it when it leaps at you.
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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.
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I personally believe that most people that play an instrument would be able to write a few songs here and there. But they say, “I tried, I can’t do it” and give up and don’t try it again; they get too discouraged.
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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.
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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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It’s great to be here. It’s great to be anywhere.
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If you are going to get wasted, then get wasted elegantly.
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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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Music works in mysterious ways. Once it goes in you have no idea what it can do to you.
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