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Keith Richards (born 18 December 1943) is an English musician and songwriter, best known as a guitarist and founder member of the Rolling Stones. Rolling Stone magazine called Richards "rock's greatest single body of riffs" on guitar and ranked him fourth on its list of 100 best guitarists in 2011, and the magazine lists fourteen songs that Richards wrote with the Rolling Stones' lead vocalist Mick Jagger on its "500 Greatest Songs of All Time" list.

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It might appear that nothing is happening, but that's actually when it really happens.

Actually, Appear, Happens, Might, Nothing, Opportunity

I personally believe that most people that play an instrument would be able to write a few songs here and there. But they say, "I tried, I can't do it" and give up and don't try it again; they get too discouraged.

Believe, Give, Giving Up, Play, Song

One minute I'm standing at Ronnie Scott's getting a standing ovation and the next minute, I'm on a marble slab

Ovation, Next, Minutes, Minute, Ronnie

I don't like to go into the studio with all the songs worked out and planned before hand. . . you've got to give the band something to use its imagination on as well. That can make a very ordinary song come alive into something totally different. . . the X-factor - so important in rock and roll - which is the feel.

Band, Give, Make, Music, Rocks, Song

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

Although, Everything, Free, Hypochondria

I mean, give me a guitar, give me a piano, give me a broom and string, I wouldn't get bored anywhere.

Bored, Give, Guitar, Mean, Music, String

I'm not getting old I'm evolving.

Evolve, Evolving, Getting Old, Old

Anything you throw yourself into, you better get yourself out of.

Throw

The Stones in a club is still the ultimate rush.

Club, Clubs, Rush, Stills, Stones

I've got nothing against daylight. I don't live totally nocturnally. Only when I feel like it. Which is most of the time.

Against, Daylight, Feels, Live, Nocturnally, Time

If you're gonna get wasted, get wasted elegantly.

Elegantly, Gonna, Ifs, Wasted

To me, life is a wild animal. You hope to deal with it when it leaps at you.

Animal, Life Is, Leap, Wild, Deal

Good music comes out of people playing together, knowing what they want to do and going for it. You have to sweat over it and bug it to death. You can't do it by pushing buttons and watching a TV screen.

Good, Knowing, Music, People, Sweat

I've always been suspicious of TV, I've always found music and video to be an unhappy marriage.

Atheism, Marriage, Suspicious, Unhappy

The Beatles were basically a vocal band.

Band, Basically, Beatles, Vocal

Fame has killed more very talented guys than drugs. Jimi Hendrix didn't die of an overdose, he died of fame.

Die, Drug, Drugs, Fame, Guy, Talented

You don't start to play your guitar thinking you're going to be running an organisation that will maybe generate millions.

Generate, Guitar, Millions, Play, Running, Thinking

I never thought I was wasted, but I probably was.

Probably, Thought, Wasted

You've got the sun, you've got the moon, and you've got the Rolling Stones.

Moon, Rolling, Stones, Sun

I read the Bible sometimes, but it bores me to death. I just want to know what other people find so bloody fascinating.

People, Want, Sometimes, Fascinating, Know

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