The public library is the great equaliser.
KEITH RICHARDSIt’s a privilege just to wake up to a new day.
More Keith Richards Quotes
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I don’t regret nothing.
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You know, the BBC had not been particularly generous in its deliverance of blues and esoteric kinds of music.
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Some people think I’m a mythical genius, others think I’m a junkie madman.
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To me, the main thing about living on this planet is to know who the hell you are and be real about it. That’s the reason I’m still alive.
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What Muddy Waters did for us is what we should do for others. It’s the old thing, what you want written on your tombstone as a musician: ‘He passed it on.’
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Women are a beautiful complication, and I look forward to far more beauties and far more complications.
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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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The rock’s easy, but the roll is another thing.
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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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But I’m not here just to make records and money. I’m here to say something and to touch other people, sometimes in a cry of desperation: “Do you know this feeling?
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One of the great things about songwrighting; it’s not an intellectual experience.
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The electric guitar was vital in helping what I’ve achieved where would I be without it? Playing awfully quietly, for a start.
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Guitar is easy, all it takes is 5 fingers, 6 strings and 1 a**hole.
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I’m not getting old I’m evolving.
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Retire? I can’t spell the word. I’d play in a wheelchair.
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