Music is a language that doesn’t speak in particular words. It speaks in emotions, and if it’s in the bones, it’s in the bones.
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 only get ill when I give up drugs. I don’t have a drug problem, I have a police problem.
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The Stones in a club is still the ultimate rush.
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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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If you say I’m great, thank you very much. But I know what I am. I could be better, man, you know?
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I haven’t stopped smoking; anything.
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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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To a musician or songwriter, your canvas is silence.
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I mean, give me a guitar, give me a piano, give me a broom and string, I wouldn’t get bored anywhere.
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If you are going to get wasted, then get wasted elegantly.
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The public library is the great equaliser.
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Music works in mysterious ways. Once it goes in you have no idea what it can do to you.
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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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Everybody starts by imitating their heroes. For me it was Chuck Berry and Muddy Waters.
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If you’ve gotta think about being cool, you ain’t cool.
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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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