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 RICHARDSWhatever side I take, I know well that I will be blamed.
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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The rock’s easy, but the roll is another thing.
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The electric guitar was vital in helping what I’ve achieved where would I be without it? Playing awfully quietly, for a start.
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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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One of the great things about songwrighting; it’s not an intellectual experience.
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I occasionally borrow pot from my kids. They do a little weed occasionally. ‘Here, Dad’ – or more likely, ‘Dad, have you got any?’
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It’s one thing to play a Muddy Waters song. It’s another thing to play with him.
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If you are going to get wasted, then get wasted elegantly.
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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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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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A painter’s got a canvas. The writer’s got reams of empty paper. A musician has silence.
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I’ve never turned blue in someone else’s bathroom. I consider that the height of bad manners.
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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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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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If you’re cool, you don’t know nothing about it. It just is, or you ain’t.
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