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.
KEITH RICHARDSTo me, life is a wild animal. You hope to deal with it when it leaps at you.
More Keith Richards Quotes
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George Jones is a national treasure and should be treated accordingly. A unique style so often emulated even inadvertently.
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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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To make a rock’n’roll record, technology is the least important thing.
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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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Whatever side I take, I know well that I will be blamed.
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To a musician or songwriter, your canvas is silence.
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If you are going to get wasted, then get wasted elegantly.
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Songwriting’s a weird game.
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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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The Stones in a club is still the ultimate rush.
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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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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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I mean some doctor told me I had six months to live and I went to their funeral.
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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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