True friends. Hardest thing to find, but you never look for them – they found you ; you just grow into each other
KEITH RICHARDSFame has killed more very talented guys than drugs. Jimi Hendrix didn’t die of an overdose, he died of fame.
More Keith Richards Quotes
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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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Music works in mysterious ways. Once it goes in you have no idea what it can do to you.
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You don’t find a style. A style finds you.
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Guitar is easy, all it takes is 5 fingers, 6 strings and 1 a**hole.
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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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You know, the BBC had not been particularly generous in its deliverance of blues and esoteric kinds of music.
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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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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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I was in awe sometimes listening to Mick Taylor . Everything was there in his playing – the melodic touch, a beautiful sustain and a way of reading a song.
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I like it here in Austin. Anybody got a room?
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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 can’t accuse me of anything I haven’t already confessed to.
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I haven’t stopped smoking; anything.
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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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Poison’s not bad. It’s a matter of how much.
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