Keith Richards Quotes - Page 2

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• Nobody wants to get old, but nobody wants to die young either.

  Keith Richards

  Want, Young, Dies

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• I never thought I was wasted, but I probably was.

  Keith Richards

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• My life is full of broken halos.

  Keith Richards

  Broken, Halos, Life Is

  Keith Richards (2010). “Life”, p.335, Hachette UK

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• If you're cool, you don't know nothing about it. It just is, or you ain't.

  Keith Richards

  Knows, Ifs

  "Keith Richards and Johnny Depp: Blood Brothers". Interview with David Wild, www.rollingstone.com. May 31, 2007.

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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.

  Keith Richards

  Art, Real, Loneliness

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• Everyone talks about rock these days; the problem is they forget about the roll.

  Keith Richards

  Rocks, Rock And Roll, Rock N Roll

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• I never plan anything, which is probably the difference between Mick and myself. Mick needs to know what he's gonna do tomorrow and I'm just happy to wake up to see who's hanging around. Mick's rock and I'm roll.

  Keith Richards

  Rocks, Differences, Needs

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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.

  Keith Richards

  Sleep, Men, Animal

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• Preaching is tax free. Very little to do with God, a lot to do with money

  Keith Richards

  Littles, Taxes, Preaching

  Keith Richards (2010). “Life”, p.94, Hachette UK

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• Let me be clear about this. I don't have a drug problem. I have a police problem.

  Keith Richards

  Drug, Police, Problem

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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.

  Keith Richards

  Real, Alive, Hell

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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.

  Keith Richards

  Growing Up, Thinking, Age

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• Music works in mysterious ways. Once it goes in you have no idea what it can do to you.

  Keith Richards

  Ideas, Way, Mysterious

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• What is it that makes you want to write songs? In a way you want to stretch yourself into other people’s hearts. You want to plant yourself there, or at least get a resonance, where other people become a bigger instrument than the one you’re playing. It becomes almost an obsession to touch other people. To write a song that is remembered and taken to heart is a connection, a touching of bases. A thread that runs through all of us. A stab to the heart. Sometimes I think songwriting is about tightening the heartstrings as much as possible without bringing on a heart attack.

  Keith Richards

  Running, Song, Taken

  Keith Richards (2010). “Life”, p.193, Hachette UK

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• The public library is the great equaliser.

  Keith Richards

  Library, Public Library

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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.

  Keith Richards

  Matter, Life Is, Chemicals

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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.

  Keith Richards

  Bullying, Moving, School

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• Guitar is easy, all it takes is 5 fingers, 6 strings and 1 a**hole

  Keith Richards

  Guitar, Easy, Holes

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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.

  Keith Richards

  Teamwork, Rocks, Rock And Roll

  "Life". Book by Keith Richards, 2010.

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• It might appear that nothing is happening, but that's actually when it really happens.

  Keith Richards

  Opportunity, Might, Happens

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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.

  Keith Richards

  Jobs, Ideas, Musician

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• Fame has killed more very talented guys than drugs. Jimi Hendrix didn't die of an overdose, he died of fame.

  Keith Richards

  Guy, Drug, Fame

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• To me, life is a wild animal. You hope to deal with it when it leaps at you.

  Keith Richards

  Animal, Life Is, Leap

  "Will Keith Richards Bury Us All?". Interview with David Fricke, www.rollingstone.com. October 17, 2002.

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• Anything you throw yourself into, you better get yourself out of.

  Keith Richards

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• [joking about the length of the Rolling Stones' career] You have the sun, you have the moon, you have the air that you breathe - and you have the Rolling Stones!

  Keith Richards

  Moon, Air, Rolling

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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