Keith Richards Quotes

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• There was a knock on our dressing-room door. Our manager shouted, 'Keith! Ron! The Police are here!' Oh, man, we panicked, flushed everything down the john. Then the door opened and it was Stewart Copeland and Sting.

  Keith Richards

  Funny, Humorous, Men

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• I'm not getting old I'm evolving.

  Keith Richards

  Evolve, Getting Old

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  I've never had a problem with drugs. I've had problems with the police.

  Keith Richards

  Music, Humor, Alcohol

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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.

  Keith Richards

  Emotion, Language, Speak

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• You can't accuse me of anything I haven't already confessed to.

  Keith Richards

  Havens

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• Some things get better with age. Like me.

  Keith Richards

  Get Better, Age, Like Me

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  Music is a necessity. After food, air, water and warmth, music is the next necessity of life.

  Keith Richards

  Air, Water, Next

  Twitter post from Apr 01, 2011

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• It's a privilege just to wake up to a new day.

  Keith Richards

  New Day, Wake Up, Privilege

  "Keith Richards turns 70! Celebrate with rocker's famed wisdom" by Kurt Schlosser, www.today.com. December 18, 2013.

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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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  True Friend, Found You, Looks

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• A painter's got a canvas. The writer's got reams of empty paper. A musician has silence.

  Keith Richards

  Silence, Musician, Paper

  Twitter post from Sep 17, 2012

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• I mean some doctor told me I had six months to live and I went to their funeral.

  Keith Richards

  Mean, Doctors, Funeral

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  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 Richards

  Inspirational, God, Growing Up

  "Life". Book by Keith Richards and James Fox, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 26, 2010.

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  If you've gotta think about being cool, you ain't cool.

  Keith Richards

  Thinking, Being Cool, Ifs

  Twitter post from Sep 25, 2012

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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.

  Keith Richards

  Years, Numbers, Lists

  "Keith Richards turns 70! Celebrate with rocker's famed wisdom" by Kurt Schlosser, www.today.com. December 18, 2013.

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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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  Age, Youth, Holding On

  "Keith Richards turns 70! Celebrate with rocker's famed wisdom" by Kurt Schlosser, www.today.com. December 18, 2013.

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• If you are going to get wasted, then get wasted
  elegantly.

  Keith Richards

  Ifs

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• I'm all for a quiet life. I just didn't get one.

  Keith Richards

  Quiet, Quiet Life

  Twitter post from Jul 06, 2012

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  If you don't know the blues... there's no point in picking up the guitar and playing rock and roll or any other form of popular music.

  Keith Richards

  Guitar, Rock And Roll, Rocks

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• You're sitting with some guys, and you're playing and you go, "Ooh, yeah!" That feeling is worth more than anything. There's a certain moment when you realize that you've actually just left the planet for a bit and that nobody can touch you. You're elevated because you're with a bunch of guys that want to do the same thing as you. And when it works, baby, you've got wings. You know you've been somewhere most people will never get; you've been to a special place.

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  Baby, Wings, People

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• The only things Mick and I disagree about is the band, the music and what we do.

  Keith Richards

  Band, Disagree

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• It's great to be here. It's great to be anywhere.

  Keith Richards

  Bad Day, Keep Going

  "On the scene: Rolling Stones open their tour in Los Angeles" by Laura Hertzfeld, ew.com. May 4, 2013.

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• The rock's easy, but the roll is another thing.

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  Rocks, Easy

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• I'm free of hypochondria-- although I've got
  everything else.

  Keith Richards

  Twitter post from Sep 23, 2016

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• What is life but playing with time?

  Keith Richards

  What Is Life

  Keith Richards (2014). “Keith Richards on Keith Richards”, p.244, Omnibus Press

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• You don't find a style. A style finds you

  Keith Richards

  Guitar, Style, Well Dressed

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