We age not by holding on to youth, but by letting ourselves grow and embracing whatever youthful parts remain.
KEITH RICHARDSMusic is a necessity. After food, air, water and warmth, music is the next necessity of life.
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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I don’t trust doctors. It’s not to say there ain’t some good ones, but on a general level, no, I wouldn’t trust ’em at all.
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I don’t wave a flag for anything. I’m a musician.
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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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I am not doing it just for the money or for you. I am doing it for me.
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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 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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The electric guitar was vital in helping what I’ve achieved where would I be without it? Playing awfully quietly, for a start.
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The only things Mick and I disagree about is the band, the music and what we do.
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It’s great to be here. It’s great to be anywhere.
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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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If you’re cool, you don’t know nothing about it. It just is, or you ain’t.
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Nobody wants to get old, but nobody wants to die young either.
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True friends. Hardest thing to find, but you never look for them – they found you ; you just grow into each other
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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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