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 RICHARDSGeorge Jones is a national treasure and should be treated accordingly. A unique style so often emulated even inadvertently.
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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Guitar is easy, all it takes is 5 fingers, 6 strings and 1 a**hole.
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And then I think we realized, like any young guys, that blues are not learned in a monastery. You’ve got to go out there and get your heart broke and then come back and then you can sing the blues.
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I’m free of hypochondria– although I’ve got everything else.
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Why would you want to be anything else if you’re Mick Jagger?
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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’m not getting old I’m evolving.
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If you’ve gotta think about being cool, you ain’t cool.
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You don’t find a style. A style finds you.
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I look for ambiguity when I’m writing because life is ambiguous.
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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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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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I’ve never had a problem with drugs. I’ve had problems with the police.
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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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If you’re going to kick authority in the teeth, you might as well use both feet.
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