To me, life is a wild animal. You hope to deal with it when it leaps at you.
KEITH RICHARDSI 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.
More Keith Richards Quotes
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I never thought I was wasted, but I probably was.
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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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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.
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I’ve never had inner turmoil about all this. You find a lot of people these days who cannot stand to be alone. You could lock me up in solitary for weeks on end, and I’d keep myself amused.
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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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I don’t wave a flag for anything. I’m a musician.
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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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George Jones is a national treasure and should be treated accordingly. A unique style so often emulated even inadvertently.
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I’m not getting old I’m evolving.
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When I listen to what I did under the influence – 10 years of work – I don’t think it either enhanced or impaired me. It didn’t have that much to do with it.
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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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Preaching is tax free. Very little to do with God, a lot to do with money.
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I don’t encourage anybody to do what I do, you know? Why should you? More for me!
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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 am not doing it just for the money or for you. I am doing it for me.
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