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 achieved everything I wanted to achieve by being in the Rolling Stones and making records.
More Keith Richards Quotes
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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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Fame has killed more very talented guys than drugs. Jimi Hendrix didn’t die of an overdose, he died of fame.
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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 idea of retiring is like killing yourself. It’s almost like Hari Kari. I intend to live to a 100 and go down in history.
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I like it here in Austin. Anybody got a room?
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Rock and roll ain’t nothing but jazz with a hard backbeat.
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We age not by holding on to youth, but by letting ourselves grow and embracing whatever youthful parts remain.
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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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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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A painter’s got a canvas. The writer’s got reams of empty paper. A musician has silence.
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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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Preaching is tax free. Very little to do with God, a lot to do with money.
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I never plan anything, which is probably the difference between Mick and myself. Mick needs to know what he’s gonna do tomorrow and I’m just happy to wake up to see who’s hanging around. Mick’s rock and I’m roll.
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Love has sold more songs than you’ve had hot dinners.
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I only get ill when I give up drugs. I don’t have a drug problem, I have a police problem.
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