I never thought I was wasted, but I probably was.
KEITH RICHARDSIt’s an addiction and addiction is something I should know something about.
More Keith Richards Quotes
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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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If you’re cool, you don’t know nothing about it. It just is, or you ain’t.
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You don’t find a style. A style finds you.
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I’m an unpure purist, something like that.
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It might appear that nothing is happening, but that’s actually when it really happens.
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To a musician or songwriter, your canvas is silence.
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I never sleep alone. If there is no one to sleep next to, I’ll sleep next to a stuffed animal. It makes me feel secure and safe. It’s a little embarrassing to admit it; I’m an old man now. It’s important to me though.
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I’ve never had a problem with drugs. I’ve had problems with the police.
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This is the rock ‘n’ roll life, and you had to invent it as you went along. There was no textbook to say how you operate this machinery.
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I personally believe that most people that play an instrument would be able to write a few songs here and there. But they say, “I tried, I can’t do it” and give up and don’t try it again; they get too discouraged.
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To me, life is a wild animal. You hope to deal with it when it leaps at you.
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One of the great things about songwrighting; it’s not an intellectual experience.
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I have no idea what the audience makes of me.
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You see, to me, the art of music is listening to it, not playing it. The real art of it is hearing it.
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When you’re 20, you can’t imagine being 30. When you’re 30, you can’t imagine being 40. When you’re 40, you can’t imagine being 100.
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