Everybody’s got a different way of telling a story – and has different stories to tell.
KEITH RICHARDSIt’s a privilege just to wake up to a new day.
More Keith Richards Quotes
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I occasionally borrow pot from my kids. They do a little weed occasionally. ‘Here, Dad’ – or more likely, ‘Dad, have you got any?’
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We all have our own personal laboratories. Life is an experiment, and it’s just a matter of getting the alchemical or chemical combination right.
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But I’ve always felt very comfortable on stage, even if I screw up. It always felt like a dog, this is my turf, piss around it. While I’m here, nothing else can happen. All I can do is screw up. Otherwise, have a good time.
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If you’re cool, you don’t know nothing about it. It just is, or you ain’t.
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I’m free of hypochondria– although I’ve got everything else.
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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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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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My father. I snorted my father. He was cremated and I couldn’t resist grinding him up with a little bit of blow.
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I’m not getting old I’m evolving.
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The Stones in a club is still the ultimate rush.
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I’m all for a quiet life. I just didn’t get one.
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The public library is the great equaliser.
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When you’re 20, you can’t imagine being 30. When you’re 30, you can’t imagine being 40. When you’re 40, you can’t imagine being 100.
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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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Guitar is easy, all it takes is 5 fingers, 6 strings and 1 a**hole.
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