To a musician or songwriter, your canvas is silence.
KEITH RICHARDSI look for ambiguity when I’m writing because life is ambiguous.
More Keith Richards Quotes
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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.
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I’m an unpure purist, something like that.
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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 read the Bible sometimes, but it bores me to death. I just want to know what other people find so bloody fascinating.
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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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My life is full of broken halos.
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If you say I’m great, thank you very much. But I know what I am. I could be better, man, you know?
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When you’re 20, you can’t imagine being 30. When you’re 30, you can’t imagine being 40. When you’re 40, you can’t imagine being 100.
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It’s great to be here. It’s great to be anywhere.
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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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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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Nobody wants to get old, but nobody wants to die young either.
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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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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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To make a rock’n’roll record, technology is the least important thing.
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