Keith Richards

If you're going to kick authority in the teeth, you might as well use two feet. ↗

— Keith Richards

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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

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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

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I've never had inner turmoil about all this. You find a lot of people these days who cannot stand to be alone. You could lock me up in solitary for weeks on end, and I'd keep myself amused. ↗

— Keith Richards

#self-awareness

Why would you want to be anything else if you're Mick Jagger? ↗

— Keith Richards

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Its called a playground, but its nearer to a battlefield. It can be brutal ↗

— Keith Richards

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One of the great things about songwrighting; it's not an intellectual experience ↗

— Keith Richards

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[John] Belushi was an extreme experience even by my standards. ↗

— Keith Richards

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Wild Horses" started in a B-minor chord, and Stu didn't play minor chords, "fucking Chinese music. ↗

— Keith Richards

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El silencio es el lienzo en blanco, el marco, sobre lo que trabajas; y no tratas de ahogarlo. ↗

— Keith Richards

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