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.
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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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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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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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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Some things get better with age. Like me.
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The public library is the great equaliser.
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Nobody wants to get old, but nobody wants to die young either.
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I mean some doctor told me I had six months to live and I went to their funeral.
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The rock’s easy, but the roll is another thing.
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To me, the main thing about living on this planet is to know who the hell you are and be real about it. That’s the reason I’m still alive.
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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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Retire? I can’t spell the word. I’d play in a wheelchair.
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No broken hearts, no broken necks.
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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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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 me, my biggest fear is getting a big head, and that is when I get the hammer. Because it’s very easy in this game to believe you’re something special.
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