The electric guitar was vital in helping what I’ve achieved where would I be without it? Playing awfully quietly, for a start.
KEITH RICHARDSWomen are a beautiful complication, and I look forward to far more beauties and far more complications.
More Keith Richards Quotes
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I never sleep alone. If there is no one to sleep next to, I’ll sleep next to a stuffed animal. It makes me feel secure and safe. It’s a little embarrassing to admit it; I’m an old man now. It’s important to me though.
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Songwriting’s a weird game.
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One of the great things about songwrighting; it’s not an intellectual experience.
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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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We age not by holding on to youth, but by letting ourselves grow and embracing whatever youthful parts remain.
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If you stay up, you get the songs that everyone else misses because they’re asleep.
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Whatever side I take, I know well that I will be blamed.
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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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You don’t find a style. A style finds you.
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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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If you’ve gotta think about being cool, you ain’t cool.
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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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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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If you’re going to kick authority in the teeth, you might as well use both feet.
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Everybody starts by imitating their heroes. For me it was Chuck Berry and Muddy Waters.
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