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.
KEITH RICHARDSWhen 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.
More Keith Richards Quotes
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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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I’ve never had my hair cut by anybody, I do it all myself.
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No broken hearts, no broken necks.
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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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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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It’s a privilege just to wake up to a new day.
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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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I mean some doctor told me I had six months to live and I went to their funeral.
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Rock and Roll: Music for the neck downwards.
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You have the sun, you have the moon, you have the air that you breathe – and you have the Rolling Stones!
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I achieved everything I wanted to achieve by being in the Rolling Stones and making records.
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I like it here in Austin. Anybody got a room?
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It might appear that nothing is happening, but that’s actually when it really happens.
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It’s an addiction and addiction is something I should know something about.
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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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