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Keith Richards Inspirational Quotes (96)

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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.
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Everybody starts by imitating their heroes. For me it was Chuck Berry and Muddy Waters.
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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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Poison's not bad. It's a matter of how much.
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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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Some of my most outrageous nights- I can only believe actually happened because of corroborating evidence. No wonder I'm famous for partying! The ultimate party- if it's any good- you can't remember it.
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I wouldn't warm to [Chuck Berry] even if I was cremated next to him.
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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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It's good to be anywhere.
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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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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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One minute I'm standing at Ronnie Scott's getting a standing ovation and the next minute, I'm on a marble slab
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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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Guitar is easy, all it takes is 5 fingers, 6 strings and 1 a**hole
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I've never had my hair cut by anybody, I do it all myself.
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A painter's got a canvas. The writer's got reams of empty paper. A musician has silence.
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Yes, I've been trepanned. That's quite an interesting experience, especially for my brain surgeon, who saw my thoughts flying around in my brain.
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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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[John] Belushi was an extreme experience even by my standards.
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What Muddy Waters did for us is what we should do for others. It's the old thing, what you want written on your tombstone as a musician: 'He passed it on.'
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I look for ambiguity when I'm writing because life is ambiguous.
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Its called a playground, but its nearer to a battlefield. It can be brutal
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The idea of retiring is like killing yourself. It's almost like Hari Kari. I intend to live to a 100 and go down in history.
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