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.
KEITH RICHARDSSongwriting’s a weird game.
More Keith Richards Quotes
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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.
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To a musician or songwriter, your canvas is silence.
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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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If you’re going to kick authority in the teeth, you might as well use both feet.
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I mean, give me a guitar, give me a piano, give me a broom and string, I wouldn’t get bored anywhere.
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Whatever side I take, I know well that I will be blamed.
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Preaching is tax free. Very little to do with God, a lot to do with money.
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Anything you throw yourself into, you better get yourself out of.
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When I listen to what I did under the influence – 10 years of work – I don’t think it either enhanced or impaired me. It didn’t have that much to do with it.
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It’s great to be here. It’s great to be anywhere.
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I am not doing it just for the money or for you. I am doing it for me.
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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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The public library is the great equaliser.
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The only things Mick and I disagree about is the band, the music and what we do.
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I’m not getting old I’m evolving.
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