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.
KEITH RICHARDSIf you stay up, you get the songs that everyone else misses because they’re asleep.
More Keith Richards Quotes
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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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One of the great things about songwrighting; it’s not an intellectual experience.
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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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I don’t trust doctors. It’s not to say there ain’t some good ones, but on a general level, no, I wouldn’t trust ’em at all.
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You have the sun, you have the moon, you have the air that you breathe – and you have the Rolling Stones!
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I’ve never had a problem with drugs. I’ve had problems with the police.
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I was in awe sometimes listening to Mick Taylor . Everything was there in his playing – the melodic touch, a beautiful sustain and a way of reading a song.
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My father. I snorted my father. He was cremated and I couldn’t resist grinding him up with a little bit of blow.
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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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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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I’m free of hypochondria– although I’ve got everything else.
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[John] Belushi was an extreme experience even by my standards.
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Songwriting’s a weird game.
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I’m all for a quiet life. I just didn’t get one.
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Preaching is tax free. Very little to do with God, a lot to do with money.
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