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.
KEITH RICHARDSIf you’re cool, you don’t know nothing about it. It just is, or you ain’t.
More Keith Richards Quotes
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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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I personally believe that most people that play an instrument would be able to write a few songs here and there. But they say, “I tried, I can’t do it” and give up and don’t try it again; they get too discouraged.
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I was in awe sometimes listening to Mick Taylor . Everything was there in his playing – the melodic touch, a beautiful sustain and a way of reading a song.
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I achieved everything I wanted to achieve by being in the Rolling Stones and making records.
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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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Everybody starts by imitating their heroes. For me it was Chuck Berry and Muddy Waters.
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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.
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I never thought I was wasted, but I probably was.
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I’m all for a quiet life. I just didn’t get one.
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I looked upon myself, in a sort of romantic and silly way, as like a laboratory.
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[John] Belushi was an extreme experience even by my standards.
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I am not doing it just for the money or for you. I am doing it for me.
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My life is full of broken halos.
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I haven’t stopped smoking; anything.
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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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