Keith Richards Quotes
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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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There's no substitute for live work to keep a band together.
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You don't find a style. A style finds you
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I've never had a problem with drugs. I've had problems with the police.
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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 occasionally borrow pot from my kids. They do a little weed occasionally. 'Here, Dad' — or more likely, 'Dad, have you got any?'
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Women are a beautiful complication, and I look forward to far more beauties and far more complications.
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Some things get better with age. Like me.
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Poison's not bad. It's a matter of how much.
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It's called the mysterious rhythm of life, ... I can't quite account for it. It's probably an addiction, quite honestly. I need that shot of stage every two or three years.
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There's something beautifully friendly and elevating about a bunch of guys playing music together. This wonderful little world that is unassailable. It's really teamwork, one guy supporting the others, and it's all for one purpose, and there's no flies in the ointment, for a while. And nobody conducting, it's all up to you. It's really jazz__that's the big secret. Rock and roll ain't nothing but jazz with a hard backbeat.
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A gut-string classical Spanish guitar, a sweet, lovely little lady. The smell of it. Even now, to open a guitar case, when it's an old wooden guitar, I could crawl in and close the lid.
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I was number 1 on the who's likely to die list for 10 years...I was really disappointed when I fell off that list.
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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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I'd been an expert at taking beatings. Then I had a lucky break where I did a bully in, by total sheer luck. ... One minute I was the mark, and with just one swift move, I put the big man in school down. ... Once he was down, the whole atmosphere in the schoolyard changed. A huge cloud seemed to be lifted from me. ... I'd never been aware the cloud was so large.
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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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About myself I have no great illusions. I know what I am. I know what I'm good at. I know what I ain't. I'm always hoping to surprise myself. But I do have a love of music and I do love to communicate it, and that's the best I can do, really. And I can raise a good family, too.
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Songwriting's a weird game.
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I've never had my hair cut by anybody, I do it all myself.
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Rock n Roll is music from the neck down.
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I have no idea what the audience makes of me.
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Preaching is tax free. Very little to do with God, a lot to do with money
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Good music comes out of people playing together, knowing what they want to do and going for it. You have to sweat over it and bug it to death. You can't do it by pushing buttons and watching a TV screen.
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What's the big deal about still working? Retirement age is sixty-five, and that's at a normal job - and I ain't there yet.
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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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Let me be clear about this. I don't have a drug problem. I have a police problem.
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There's a demon in me, and he's still around. Without the dope, we have a bit more of a chat these days.
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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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We age not by holding on to youth, but by letting ourselves grow and embracing whatever youthful parts remain.
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Nobody wants to get old, but nobody wants to die young either.
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