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You know, the BBC had not been particularly generous in its deliverance of blues and esoteric kinds of music.

Keith Richards

I’m all for a quiet life. I just didn’t get one.
KEITH RICHARDS

Life Oneself Quiet
If you’ve gotta think about being cool, you ain’t cool.
KEITH RICHARDS

Cool Thinking Yourself
I’ve never had my hair cut by anybody, I do it all myself.
KEITH RICHARDS

Hairs Myself
I read the Bible sometimes, but it bores me to death. I just want to know what other people find so bloody fascinating.
KEITH RICHARDS

Blood Fascination Myself People Reading
The rock’s easy, but the roll is another thing.
KEITH RICHARDS

Music Rock Roll
We age not by holding on to youth, but by letting ourselves grow and embracing whatever youthful parts remain.
KEITH RICHARDS

Age Growth Ourselves Youth
I’m an unpure purist, something like that.
KEITH RICHARDS

Myself Purity
I looked upon myself, in a sort of romantic and silly way, as like a laboratory.
KEITH RICHARDS

Labor Myself Romantic Way
One of the great things about songwrighting; it’s not an intellectual experience.
KEITH RICHARDS

Experience Greatness Intellectual Oneself
If you’re going to kick authority in the teeth, you might as well use both feet.
KEITH RICHARDS

Authority Yourself
Women are a beautiful complication, and I look forward to far more beauties and far more complications.
KEITH RICHARDS

Beautiful Complication Myself Woman
A painter’s got a canvas. The writer’s got reams of empty paper. A musician has silence.
KEITH RICHARDS

Canvas Musician Painter Paper Silence
I consider my job [being a musician] is to have a little idea and nurture it and put it in some form that everybody else can understand and then sort of pass it on. It’s really a passing through. In other words, you receive and you transmit.
KEITH RICHARDS

Ideas Job Myself Nurture Understand Word
Fame has killed more very talented guys than drugs. Jimi Hendrix didn’t die of an overdose, he died of fame.
KEITH RICHARDS

Death Fame Kill Talent
Retire? I can’t spell the word. I’d play in a wheelchair.
KEITH RICHARDS

Myself Play Retirement Spell Word
Music is a necessity. After food, air, water and warmth, music is the next necessity of life.
KEITH RICHARDS

Life Music Necessary Need

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