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.
KEITH RICHARDSYou don’t find a style. A style finds you.
More Keith Richards Quotes
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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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We all have our own personal laboratories. Life is an experiment, and it’s just a matter of getting the alchemical or chemical combination right.
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Anything you throw yourself into, you better get yourself out of.
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Let me be clear about this. I don’t have a drug problem. I have a police problem.
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If you don’t know the blues there’s no point in picking up the guitar and playing rock and roll or any other form of popular music.
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Some things get better with age. Like me.
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I like it here in Austin. Anybody got a room?
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To a musician or songwriter, your canvas is silence.
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This is the rock ‘n’ roll life, and you had to invent it as you went along. There was no textbook to say how you operate this machinery.
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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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If you stay up, you get the songs that everyone else misses because they’re asleep.
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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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The electric guitar was vital in helping what I’ve achieved where would I be without it? Playing awfully quietly, for a start.
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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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What’s the big deal about still working? Retirement age is sixty-five, and that’s at a normal job – and I ain’t there yet.
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