If you’re cool, you don’t know nothing about it. It just is, or you ain’t.
KEITH RICHARDSI’m all for a quiet life. I just didn’t get one.
More Keith Richards Quotes
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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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You can’t accuse me of anything I haven’t already confessed to.
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It might appear that nothing is happening, but that’s actually when it really happens.
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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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We age not by holding on to youth, but by letting ourselves grow and embracing whatever youthful parts remain.
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I don’t encourage anybody to do what I do, you know? Why should you? More for me!
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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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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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Preaching is tax free. Very little to do with God, a lot to do with money.
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Whatever side I take, I know well that I will be blamed.
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It’s one thing to play a Muddy Waters song. It’s another thing to play with him.
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I like it here in Austin. Anybody got a room?
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The public library is the great equaliser.
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To me, life is a wild animal. You hope to deal with it when it leaps at you.
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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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