I’m all for a quiet life. I just didn’t get one.
KEITH RICHARDSI’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.
More Keith Richards Quotes
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Everybody starts by imitating their heroes. For me it was Chuck Berry and Muddy Waters.
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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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It might appear that nothing is happening, but that’s actually when it really happens.
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You don’t find a style. A style finds you.
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The rock’s easy, but the roll is another thing.
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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’m not getting old I’m evolving.
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What is life but playing with time?
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I’ve got nothing against daylight. I don’t live totally nocturnally. Only when I feel like it. Which is most of the time.
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I’m free of hypochondria– although I’ve got everything else.
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You see, to me, the art of music is listening to it, not playing it. The real art of it is hearing it.
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If you’ve gotta think about being cool, you ain’t cool.
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I read the Bible sometimes, but it bores me to death. I just want to know what other people find so bloody fascinating.
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I’ve never turned blue in someone else’s bathroom. I consider that the height of bad manners.
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The public library is the great equaliser.
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