The electric guitar was vital in helping what I’ve achieved where would I be without it? Playing awfully quietly, for a start.
KEITH RICHARDSAnything you throw yourself into, you better get yourself out of.
More Keith Richards Quotes
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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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Music is a necessity. After food, air, water and warmth, music is the next necessity of life.
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I looked upon myself, in a sort of romantic and silly way, as like a laboratory.
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The idea of retiring is like killing yourself. It’s almost like Hari Kari. I intend to live to a 100 and go down in history.
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Rock and Roll: Music for the neck downwards.
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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 don’t encourage anybody to do what I do, you know? Why should you? More for me!
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If you stay up, you get the songs that everyone else misses because they’re asleep.
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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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Preaching is tax free. Very little to do with God, a lot to do with money.
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We all have our own personal laboratories. Life is an experiment, and it’s just a matter of getting the alchemical or chemical combination right.
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I never thought I was wasted, but I probably was.
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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 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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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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