Love has sold more songs than you’ve had hot dinners.
KEITH RICHARDSThe electric guitar was vital in helping what I’ve achieved where would I be without it? Playing awfully quietly, for a start.
More Keith Richards Quotes
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If you don’t know the blues there’s no point in picking up the guitar and playing rock and roll or any other form of popular music.
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Some people think I’m a mythical genius, others think I’m a junkie madman.
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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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Music is a language that doesn’t speak in particular words. It speaks in emotions, and if it’s in the bones, it’s in the bones.
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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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This is the rock ‘n’ roll life, and you had to invent it as you went along. There was no textbook to say how you operate this machinery.
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It’s an addiction and addiction is something I should know something about.
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Let me be clear about this. I don’t have a drug problem. I have a police problem.
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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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Everybody thinks you reach a certain age and you’re a grownup, but it’s not true. Nobody grows up until the day they croak.
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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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If you are going to get wasted, then get wasted elegantly.
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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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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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Anything you throw yourself into, you better get yourself out of.
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