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.
KEITH RICHARDSIt’s an addiction and addiction is something I should know something about.
More Keith Richards Quotes
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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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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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What is life but playing with time?
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I mean some doctor told me I had six months to live and I went to their funeral.
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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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I mean, give me a guitar, give me a piano, give me a broom and string, I wouldn’t get bored anywhere.
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I like it here in Austin. Anybody got a room?
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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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To a musician or songwriter, your canvas is silence.
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I’ve never had a problem with drugs. I’ve had problems with the police.
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It’s a privilege just to wake up to a new day.
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You can’t accuse me of anything I haven’t already confessed to.
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Poison’s not bad. It’s a matter of how much.
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Everybody’s got a different way of telling a story – and has different stories to tell.
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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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