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.
KEITH RICHARDSIt’s a privilege just to wake up to a new day.
More Keith Richards Quotes
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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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To make a rock’n’roll record, technology is the least important thing.
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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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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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I never plan anything, which is probably the difference between Mick and myself. Mick needs to know what he’s gonna do tomorrow and I’m just happy to wake up to see who’s hanging around. Mick’s rock and I’m roll.
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Everyone talks about rock these days; the problem is they forget about the roll.
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Love has sold more songs than you’ve had hot dinners.
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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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Some people think I’m a mythical genius, others think I’m a junkie madman.
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It’s a privilege just to wake up to a new day.
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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 looked upon myself, in a sort of romantic and silly way, as like a laboratory.
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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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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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There’s a demon in me, and he’s still around. Without the dope, we have a bit more of a chat these days.
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