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 RICHARDSIf you are going to get wasted, then get wasted elegantly.
More Keith Richards Quotes
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One minute I’m standing at Ronnie Scott’s getting a standing ovation and the next minute, I’m on a marble slab
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Everybody’s got a different way of telling a story – and has different stories to tell.
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I don’t wave a flag for anything. I’m a musician.
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Everybody starts by imitating their heroes. For me it was Chuck Berry and Muddy Waters.
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It might appear that nothing is happening, but that’s actually when it really happens.
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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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It’s one thing to play a Muddy Waters song. It’s another thing to play with him.
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Whatever side I take, I know well that I will be blamed.
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I was number 1 on the who’s likely to die list for 10 years. I was really disappointed when I fell off that list.
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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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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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Guitar is easy, all it takes is 5 fingers, 6 strings and 1 a**hole.
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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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Poison’s not bad. It’s a matter of how much.
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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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