One minute I’m standing at Ronnie Scott’s getting a standing ovation and the next minute, I’m on a marble slab
KEITH RICHARDSTrue friends. Hardest thing to find, but you never look for them – they found you ; you just grow into each other
More Keith Richards Quotes
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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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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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I don’t regret nothing.
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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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Everyone talks about rock these days; the problem is they forget about the roll.
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Love has sold more songs than you’ve had hot dinners.
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I don’t encourage anybody to do what I do, you know? Why should you? More for me!
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To a musician or songwriter, your canvas is silence.
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It’s an addiction and addiction is something I should know something about.
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If you stay up, you get the songs that everyone else misses because they’re asleep.
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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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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 an unpure purist, something like that.
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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.
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