To me, life is a wild animal. You hope to deal with it when it leaps at you.
KEITH RICHARDSYou’ve got the sun, you’ve got the moon, and you’ve got the Rolling Stones.
More Keith Richards Quotes
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Some people think I’m a mythical genius, others think I’m a junkie madman.
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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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But I’m not here just to make records and money. I’m here to say something and to touch other people, sometimes in a cry of desperation: “Do you know this feeling?
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Why would you want to be anything else if you’re Mick Jagger?
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It’s an addiction and addiction is something I should know something about.
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Rock and roll ain’t nothing but jazz with a hard backbeat.
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Everybody starts by imitating their heroes. For me it was Chuck Berry and Muddy Waters.
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Whatever side I take, I know well that I will be blamed.
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What’s the big deal about still working? Retirement age is sixty-five, and that’s at a normal job – and I ain’t there yet.
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My father. I snorted my father. He was cremated and I couldn’t resist grinding him up with a little bit of blow.
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The Stones in a club is still the ultimate rush.
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I’m an unpure purist, something like that.
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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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You don’t find a style. A style finds you.
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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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