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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. The public library is a great equalizer.”
― Keith Richards

“Why would you want to be anything else if you're Mick Jagger?”
― Keith Richards, Life

“It's really good to be here and as I always say, it's really good to be anywhere!”
― Keith Richards, Keith Richards: In His Own Words

“Some people think I'm a mythical genius, others think I'm a junkie madman.”
― Keith Richards

“I don't have a problem with drugs, I have a problem with policemen.”
― Keith Richards

“Preaching is tax free. Very little to do with God, a lot to do with money”
― Keith Richards, Life

“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, Life

“I'm all for a quiet life. I just didn't get one.”
― Keith Richards

“Memory is fiction,”
― Keith Richards, Life

“The big rules of knife fighting are (a) do not try it at home, and (b) the whole point is never, ever use the blade. It is there to distract your opponent. While he stares at the gleaming steel, you kick his balls to kingdom come--he's all yours. Just a tip!”
― Keith Richards, Life

“My life is full of broken halos.”
― Keith Richards, Life

“I am not alone at all, I thought. I was never alone at all. And that, of course, is the message of Christmas. We are never alone. Not when the night is darkest, the wind coldest, the world seemingly most indifferent. For this is still the time God chooses.”
― Taylor Caldwell

“If you're going to kick authority in the teeth, you might as well use two feet.”
― Keith Richards, Keith Richards: In His Own Words