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There's no substitute for live work to keep a band together.

Keith Richards

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Keith Richards
Age: 80
Born: 1943
Born: December 18
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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.
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[John] Belushi was an extreme experience even by my standards.
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To a musician or songwriter, your canvas is silence.
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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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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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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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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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