Music is a necessity. After food, air, water and warmth, music is the next necessity of life.
KEITH RICHARDSRetire? I can’t spell the word. I’d play in a wheelchair.
More Keith Richards Quotes
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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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It’s a privilege just to wake up to a new day.
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One minute I’m standing at Ronnie Scott’s getting a standing ovation and the next minute, I’m on a marble slab
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It might appear that nothing is happening, but that’s actually when it really happens.
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It’s an addiction and addiction is something I should know something about.
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If you don’t know the blues there’s no point in picking up the guitar and playing rock and roll or any other form of popular music.
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I am not doing it just for the money or for you. I am doing it for me.
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Yes, I’ve been trepanned. That’s quite an interesting experience, especially for my brain surgeon, who saw my thoughts flying around in my brain.
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I’m all for a quiet life. I just didn’t get one.
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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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I looked upon myself, in a sort of romantic and silly way, as like a laboratory.
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We age not by holding on to youth, but by letting ourselves grow and embracing whatever youthful parts remain.
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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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Let me be clear about this. I don’t have a drug problem. I have a police problem.
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The public library is the great equaliser.
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