To a musician or songwriter, your canvas is silence.
KEITH RICHARDSPreaching is tax free. Very little to do with God, a lot to do with money.
More Keith Richards Quotes
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The rock’s easy, but the roll is another thing.
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To me, life is a wild animal. You hope to deal with it when it leaps at you.
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I have no idea what the audience makes of me.
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I’ve never had a problem with drugs. I’ve had problems with the police.
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You know, the BBC had not been particularly generous in its deliverance of blues and esoteric kinds of music.
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Some things get better with age. Like me.
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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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The public library is the great equaliser.
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If you’re cool, you don’t know nothing about it. It just is, or you ain’t.
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George Jones is a national treasure and should be treated accordingly. A unique style so often emulated even inadvertently.
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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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Everyone talks about rock these days; the problem is they forget about the roll.
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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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I never sleep alone. If there is no one to sleep next to, I’ll sleep next to a stuffed animal. It makes me feel secure and safe. It’s a little embarrassing to admit it; I’m an old man now. It’s important to me though.
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I haven’t stopped smoking; anything.
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