To me, life is a wild animal. You hope to deal with it when it leaps at you.
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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If you are going to get wasted, then get wasted elegantly.
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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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I’m an unpure purist, something like that.
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Preaching is tax free. Very little to do with God, a lot to do with money.
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Guitar is easy, all it takes is 5 fingers, 6 strings and 1 a**hole.
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You see, to me, the art of music is listening to it, not playing it. The real art of it is hearing it.
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What’s the big deal about still working? Retirement age is sixty-five, and that’s at a normal job – and I ain’t there yet.
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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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The public library is the great equaliser.
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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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Everybody thinks you reach a certain age and you’re a grownup, but it’s not true. Nobody grows up until the day they croak.
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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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I’ve never had a problem with drugs. I’ve had problems with the police.
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You get onstage and make other people feel happy. Make them feel good.
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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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