Music is a necessity. After food, air, water and warmth, music is the next necessity of life.
KEITH RICHARDSI’ve never turned blue in someone else’s bathroom. I consider that the height of bad manners.
More Keith Richards Quotes
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If you’re going to kick authority in the teeth, you might as well use both feet.
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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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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 mean some doctor told me I had six months to live and I went to their funeral.
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And then I think we realized, like any young guys, that blues are not learned in a monastery. You’ve got to go out there and get your heart broke and then come back and then you can sing the blues.
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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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If you’re cool, you don’t know nothing about it. It just is, or you ain’t.
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If you are going to get wasted, then get wasted elegantly.
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Rock and Roll: Music for the neck downwards.
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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 like it here in Austin. Anybody got a room?
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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 only get ill when I give up drugs. I don’t have a drug problem, I have a police problem.
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No broken hearts, no broken necks.
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