Everybody starts by imitating their heroes. For me it was Chuck Berry and Muddy Waters.
KEITH RICHARDSRock and Roll: Music for the neck downwards.
More Keith Richards Quotes
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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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To me, life is a wild animal. You hope to deal with it when it leaps at you.
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I’m all for a quiet life. I just didn’t get one.
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True friends. Hardest thing to find, but you never look for them – they found you ; you just grow into each other
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Music is a necessity. After food, air, water and warmth, music is the next necessity of life.
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Songwriting’s a weird game.
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I’m not getting old I’m evolving.
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It might appear that nothing is happening, but that’s actually when it really happens.
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I’m free of hypochondria– although I’ve got everything else.
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Some people think I’m a mythical genius, others think I’m a junkie madman.
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Love has sold more songs than you’ve had hot dinners.
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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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I’ve never had inner turmoil about all this. You find a lot of people these days who cannot stand to be alone. You could lock me up in solitary for weeks on end, and I’d keep myself amused.
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Everyone talks about rock these days; the problem is they forget about the roll.
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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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