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  • I played drums on Keith Carradine's first record. -- Don Henley
  • My name ain't Keith, so could you lease stop Sweatin' me. -- Big Daddy Kane
  • We lived the life with Keith Moon. It was all Spinal Tap magnified a thousand times. -- Roger Daltrey
  • I'm not Bill Evans. I'm not Keith Jarrett. I'm basically a singer who plays along with his voice. -- Burton Cummings
  • I looked at Mick Jagger and Keith Richards and the boys up there thinking, I want to be that. -- Sammy Hagar
  • I was blessed to work with The Jazz Messengers when the two piano players were Keith Jarrett and Chick Corea. -- Chuck Mangione
  • I'm not into that Keith Richard trip of having all those guitars in different tunings. I never liked the Rolling Stones much anyway. -- Ritchie Blackmore
  • The song How do you like me now? By Toby Keith will be my personal theme song when I attend my first high school reunion. -- Robert Cheeke
  • I've seen Keith fall asleep at business meetings about millions of dollars for him-because of heroin, just nod out and then wake up and answer a question. -- Charlie Watts
  • This country hates professors. It likes Toby Keith - 'I'm gonna put a boot in their ass.' If you don't do that, somehow you can't be strong. -- Bill Maher
  • I think if Keith Moon was here today and you asked him to recall most of his early life or most of his life, he wouldn't be able to recall it. -- Roger Daltrey
  • Al Michaels is a good announcer. I think Keith Jackson is a terrific announcer. I always loved him on Monday Night Football. I never understood why they got rid of him -- John Turturro
  • I'm glad I've given up drugs and alcohol. It would be awful to be like Keith Richards. He's pathetic. It's like a monkey with arthritis, trying to go onstage and look young. -- Elton John
  • We got touring with the Stones, and people were trying to keep up with Keith. He's like a human machine with a constitution of iron, and they all thought they could do the same. -- Ronnie Wood
  • Keith Moon, God rest his soul, once drove his car through the glass doors of a hotel, driving all the way up to the reception desk, got out and asked for the key to his room. -- Pete Townshend
  • It was way out in the woods in a beautiful, huge log studio. Keith Richards came in and did the vocals with Levon. Again, a big party, but we did get a good cut out of it. -- Scotty Moore
  • One night all the James Brown band was playing on stage and I look in the back and I could see Mick Jagger and Keith Richards trying to get in the club and they couldn't get in cause it was to crowded. -- Tommy Chong
  • The regrets I have are so minor. You know, would I leave my Keith Richards hat, with the silver skull on it, on the stool at the coffee shop at LaGuardia? I wouldn't do that again. But overall, no, I don't have any regrets. -- Hunter S. Thompson
  • 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. -- Keith Richards
  • Gordon Keith was the son a gentleman. -- Thomas Nelson Page
  • Keith, how does it feel to be a genius? -- Miles Davis
  • I'd like to make a show with Keith Richards. -- Anthony Bourdain
  • I'm the Best Keith Moon-type drummer in the world. -- John Bonham
  • On Keith Richards: He's like a monkey with arthritis. -- Elton John
  • Keith Deller's not just an underdog, he's an underpuppy! -- Sid Waddell
  • Keith Gillespie just lacks a little bit of inconsistency. -- Graeme Le Saux
  • One of the Keith Commandments is that nothing is secret. -- Jessica Pallington West
  • Keith Powell and Judah Friedlander are like brothers to me. -- Katrina Bowden
  • I put in the work to hand Keith Thurman his first loss. -- Jan Zaveck
  • I'm Keith," he said, "and you're . . . clearly mad, but what's your name? -- Maureen Johnson
  • Keith Richards outlived Jim Fixx, the runner and health nut. The plot thickens. -- Bill Hicks
  • Some musicians I know are incredible fathers. Like Keith Richards. A fantastic dad. -- Jack Bruce
  • I love those Keith Richards solo records, but it's not the Rolling Stones. -- Nikki Sixx
  • America, not Keith Ellison, decides what book a congressman takes his oath on, -- Dennis Prager
  • Keith Richards is the only man who can make the Osbournes look Amish. -- Robin Williams
  • Keith Knight is mapping out a previously unknown vector of the vast cartoon universe. -- Garry Trudeau
  • I'm militantly anti-drug abuse but love everything Keith Richards and some other drug goofballs do. -- Ted Nugent
  • Keith Ellison is the future of the Democratic Party, the future of the progressive movement. -- Van Jones
  • I know Mick Jagger wouldn't tour without Keith Richards and call it the Rolling Stones. -- Richie Sambora
  • It's said the FA chairman (Keith Wiseman) would travel 200 miles to open a biscuit tin. Why? -- Ken Bates
  • Good God, Keith.Yes, I've talked to Him too and I'm still waiting on his Guidance -- John Grisham
  • The most terrifying thing that ever happened to me was that Keith Moon decided he liked me. -- Joe Walsh
  • The worst thing Spurs ever did was get rid of Keith Burkinshaw. They have never replaced him. -- Graham Roberts
  • He was tall and scrawny with a face that could be mistaken with Keith Richards on a bad day. -- Kelley Armstrong
  • I always thought I looked kind of like Keith Richards, and sometimes I think I look like Michael Jackson. -- Natalie Massenet
  • When he arrived, Keith (Olbermann) had one thing in mind: it was Keith. That's fine. Nothing wrong with that. -- Bob Ley
  • When I joined Small Faces, we occasionally would bump into The Who. And Keith Moon and I became firm pals. -- Ian McLagan
  • The first time I watched [Keith] Olbermann, his opening monologue, I completely changed the way I approached my radio show. -- Jay Mohr
  • It's nice to get any awards, whether it's lifetime achievement or the Keith Richards award for being alive one more year. -- Randy Bachman
  • There's a lot of people I'd like to write with, like Keith Urban or even as far out as Stevie Wonder. -- Hunter Hayes
  • Keith Ellison is an organizer's organizer.He's one of the only Muslims in Congress, so you have a big statement there. -- Van Jones
  • You can write a great country record and still be angry. Who's angrier than Toby Keith? He's angrier than the average 10 rappers. -- Chris Rock
  • If you look at photos of the Gettysburg Address there's a guy off to the right who I think is Keith Richards. -- Dave Barry
  • I'd like to be in a man band, but with Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr and Keith Richards. We'd have a rocky edge. -- Ringo Starr
  • Me growing up in the '60s and '70s, there was almost something romantic about drugs, Keith Richards taking drugs and stuff. -- Robert Hilburn
  • I think I might have a bad psychic advisor. When I asked her to contact the dead, she gave me Keith Richards' phone number. -- David Letterman
  • Keith Moon is not interested in Jazz and won't ever be a Jazz drummer because he's more interested in looking good and being screamed at. -- Pete Townshend
  • Mick Jagger is in better shape than far too many NBA players. It's up in the air whether the same can be said of Keith Richards. -- Bill Walton
  • Obviously there was Keith Haring and Robert Mapplethorpe, but Howard was on the brink of becoming a famous director - it didn't happen because he died. -- Aaron Brookner
  • I would love to embody the attitude of Iggy Pop or Keith Richards: a ballsy mentality. Stylistically, I love Vivienne Westwood - those capes! I'm obsessed. -- Kesha
  • I'm very influenced by jazz drummers. I always liked drummers like Roger Taylor, Keith Moon, Ian Paice, John Densmore. I just learned from playing to those drummers. -- Steven Adler
  • The Stones also still have a huge following. Mick Jagger leaps around like a crazy dude. And Keith Richards, Ronnie Wood and Charlie Watts are playing great too. -- Paul McCartney
  • Hillary Clinton tweeted "Charlotte should release police video of the Keith Lamont Scott shooting without delay. The Clinton campaign has since announced that Clinton will travel to Charlotte. -- Chris Hayes
  • I don't know if watching Chaz Bono will turn your kids into transsexuals, but I'm pretty sure that letting them watch Keith Ablow will turn them into assholes -- Lewis Black
  • I've been blessed. I grew up and played and worked and created with the Freddie Mercury, the Jimi Hendrix, the Keith Richards, the John Paul Jones of my generation -- Steven Adler
  • I've been blessed. I grew up and played and worked and created with the Freddie Mercury, the Jimi Hendrix, the Keith Richards, the John Paul Jones of my generation. -- Steven Adler
  • I pull a lot of the stuff that I play off the rhythm tracks - and Keith Richards has been one of the main contributors to my inspirational playing. -- Bobby Keys
  • One thing that will make you quit smoking is sitting across from Keith Richards all night. I don't mind being ugly, but I sure don't want to look like that. -- Kid Rock
  • I'm not sure you can count as history, was Keith Richards's "Life," which he so modestly titled it. I did find it a fascinating book. Keith's a pretty honest fellow. -- Dave Barry
  • Al Michaels is a good announcer. I think Keith Jackson is a terrific announcer. I always loved him on Monday Night Football. I never understood why they got rid of him. -- John Turturro
  • I also became inspired by impressionist painters such as Renoir, and wanted to do the same sort of thing with music-portray whatever mood strikes me the way Keith Jarrett does on piano. -- Lenny Breau
  • The Rolling Stones reunited for a twenty-fifth anniversary tour last week. Keith Richards said that he's happy to continue to do what he's been doing for the past twenty-five years: cheating death. -- Norm MacDonald
  • If there is a silver lining in the action of MSNBC against Keith Olbermann, it is that people will now pay more attention to the political role of corporate media in America. -- Bernie Sanders
  • I've just completed Mike's [Mann] Nature trick of adding in the real temps to each series for the last 20 years (i.e. from 1981 onwards) and from 1961 for Keith's [Briffa] to hide the decline. -- Phil Jones
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  • Toby Keith, when you wake up tomorrow there's still going to be liberals in the world, mexicans and blacks, Muslims and Jews and high school graduates...and everyone else who hates your music. -- Maureen McCormick
  • I'm a serious aficionada of country music - Reba McEntire, Toby Keith, Montgomery Gentry. I've even written some songs. They haven't done anything of mine yet. But it's only a matter of time. -- Maya Angelou
  • There are famous examples of people who just had really strange ways - [Jimi] Hendrix being the biggest example of that. Or someone like Keith Richards, he just has a really idiosyncratic style. -- Bryce Dessner
  • Why are Americans so fascinated by Ireland?" Keith asked... "you all think you're Irish. What's the appeal? Do you like the accent more? Is it all the magical rocks? Oh, look, a leprechaun... -- Maureen Johnson
  • Strange medical news from Pakistan: A man had a successful organ transplant with a dog. They gave the man a dog's organ. In a related story today, Keith Richards was seen chasing a mailman. -- Craig Kilborn
  • We got touring with the Stones, and people were trying to keep up with Keith. He's like a human machine with a constitution of iron, and they all thought they could do the same. -- Ronnie Wood
  • I read Warren Zevon's bizarre biography, "I'll Sleep When I'm Dead." His wife, Crystal Zevon, posthumously published a journal he wrote and some interviews with ex-band members. Like [Keith] Richards's book "Life," it's brutally honest. -- Dave Barry
  • One of the main point of contention is whether or not Keith Scott was in possession of a gun. We still don`t know. Police say he did have a gun. The gun was recovered. -- Chris Hayes
  • I am going to turn over a new life and am going to be a very good girl and be obedient to Isa Keith, here there is plenty of gooseberries which makes my teeth watter. -- Marjorie Fleming
  • I'm more old school: I want to be like Keith Richards on stage. It's not interesting to see straight-from-runway clothes slapped on an artist. It's more interesting when you see people who have their own style. -- Lykke Li
  • Well, Keith Alexander, the former director of the NSA wants to say every company in the United States falls under one of two categories, those that have been hacked and those that don't yet know it. -- Ted Koppel
  • I love country; I'm gonna do a country solo album at one point just 'cause. I'm a big fan of Keith Urban, Trace Adkins, Rascal Flatts, even though that's more pop. I grew up on country. -- Tony Oller
  • We're going to die," Keith said, the moment he was gone. "This man is a serial killer. We're going to die, and he's going to bury us in his garden and build a shed on us. -- Maureen Johnson
  • Usually I can hear the pianos, the saxophone, and usually I can hear Ronnie. But I really need to listen to Keith and Mick. The rest of the band is sort of an embellishment to that. -- Charlie Watts
  • I did the co-writing thing all through the '90s and I got one hit out of it - a Keith Urban song called 'But For The Grace Of God' - but then I got burnt out. -- Jane Wiedlin
  • They're waiting for you. Go on in." Adrian leaned close to Keith's ear and spoke in an ominous voice. "If.You.Dare." He poked Keith's shoulder and gave a "Muhahaha" kind of monster laugh. -- Richelle Mead
  • It's like in the Bible.You can't always get what you want, but if you really need something, you usually find it." "What part of the Bible is that from?" Ig asked her. "The Gospel of Keith Richards? -- Joe Hill
  • I wonder about guys like Sean Hannity, Keith Olbermann and Mark Levin. They're on such a mission. I mean, I love Hannity and Levin to death, but on the radio they're insane. How can you keep that up? -- Don Imus
  • I always thought I looked kind of like Keith Richards, and sometimes I think I look like Michael Jackson in his mug shot. But as I think Keith Richards is pretty great-looking, I'm embracing that part of me. -- Natalie Massenet
  • We are looking at live pictures at this moment of a protest that is happening in Atlanta, Georgia, I believe, that has been assembled by the NAACP in protest, of course, of the shooting of Keith Lamont Scott. -- Chris Hayes
  • I always tell people, 'Everything youâ??ve heard about Alice Cooper , you can believe maybe 40 percent of it. Everything youâ??ve ever heard about Keith Moon is true - and youâ??ve only heard 10 percent of it.' -- Alice Cooper
  • I always tell people that to be the funny person in a Steve Martin movie is like getting a call that Keith Moon wants you to play drums on his record. He should be playing drums on his record. -- Jason Schwartzman
  • On his refusal to deal with Keith Primeau: We refuse to pay a prima donna, a petulant, pouting player who had 30 goals last year the same money as Toronto is paying Mats Sundin or Pittsburgh is paying Jaromir Jagr. -- Peter Karmanos, Jr.
  • John Lennon, who was a good friend of mine, he had one of the best senses of humor of any human being. And Keith Richards, fantastic sense of humor. They were smart, sharp. They had their own thoughts on matters. -- Bobby Keys
  • Having loved the Stones all the time I was growing up, I wasn't about to see them go and split up. It got very close to it in the 80s, when Mick thought that Keith hated him and vice versa. -- Ronnie Wood
  • Having loved the Stones all the time I was growing up, I wasn't about to see them go and split up. It got very close to it in the 80s, when Mick thought that Keith hated him and vice versa. -- Ronnie Wood
  • In 1965, when great young white artists in the English-speaking world were successfully re-channeling hillbilly and black music - you know Bob Dylan, Ray Davies, Pete Townsend, Keith Richards - they didn't get any money at first. They were all broke. -- Iggy Pop
  • Like a lot of people in the computer industry, Keith Malinowski had spent his whole life being the smartest person in the room, and like most of his fellows the experience left him with a rather high opinion of his opinions. -- Rick Cook
  • Travelling with work. I went to Iceland with GMTV last year and I went to Lapland twice with Classic Gold. I also went to America with Keith Chegwin, which must have been a nightmare for the crew, as we're both hyperactive. -- Tony Blackburn
  • I heard this massive thud. I spun around, and there Keith was, on the ground. He'd cut his gums up on impact, he was very bloody, and clutching his head. I think it was a kind of wake-up call for him. -- Ron Wood
  • Cos there's holes in this world,see. Holes. And the likes of Thommo, and Keith, and me, and Kenny, we just sort of fall through em. We weren't never bad kids, we just didn't have nothing to hold on to, that's all. -- Ian Ayris
  • I had always loved music. I grew up listening to classic country, Waylon Jennings, Merle Haggard. My dad loved Vern Gosdin and Keith Whitley. So I kept going to class and started getting totally into playing guitar and teaching myself these songs. -- Jake Owen
  • Some months after [Keith Alexander] made that statement [Edward Snowden cause grave and irrevocable harm to the nation], the new director of the NSA, Michael Rogers, said that, in fact, he doesn't see the sky falling. It's not so serious after all. -- Edward Snowden
  • Keith Richards ... was once asked how he came up with all those amazing guitar riffs. His answer? He just starts playing until he makes the right mistake. In other words he's optimistic he will create something good by virtue of getting something "wrong." -- Mark Stevenson
  • I didn't think of myself as a lead player, especially when we did live shows, because me and Keith used to switch around all the time. He'd take a lead, I'd play rhythm. Sometimes even within one song. It wasn't strict and regimented. -- Mick Taylor
  • The disturbing video taken by Keith Lamont Scott`s wife showing the moment her husband was killed by police in Charlotte provides a sobering window into the high level of compliance that people of color feel they need to maintain in their interactions with police. -- Chris Hayes
  • Most of the time they buy what other people buy. They move in great schools, like bluefish, all identical. There is safety in numbers. If one wants Schnabel, they all want Schnabel, if one buys a Keith Haring, two hundred Keith Harings will be sold. -- Robert Hughes
  • Every single night, it seemed to be the same seven or eight guys: Harry Nilsson, myself, Mickey Dolenz, Bernie Taupin, Keith Moon when he was in town. It was actually sort of a social club, drinking club, for rock stars that drank - seriously drank. -- Alice Cooper
  • Mike [Mann], can you delete an e-mails you may have had with Keith [Trenberth] re AR4? Keith will do likewise...Can you also e-mail Gene and get him to do the same? I don't have his e-mail address...We will be getting Caspar to do likewise. -- Phil Jones
  • P.I.L. has been a favorite of mine since high school especially there metal box album. The guitarist Keith Levine gets some of the best sounds ever to come out of a guitar. The songs are really free form and experimental and have a heavy dub influence. -- Marcel Dzama
  • With Keith's [my fiance] murder, I was changed. I thought I would be a prosecutor forever, but there were so many days when I would leave the courtroom during a trial, and go down the hall to the ladies' room, and go into a little stall, and cry. -- Nancy Grace
  • Through my friend Tony Shafrazi, who's an art dealer and an artist himself - he helped to show Basquiat and Keith Haring, and has worked with the Francis Bacon estate - it was really through my friendship with Tony that I developed even more of an interest in art. -- Owen Wilson
  • Terry said he had this new kid and his wife didn't want to live in England. He wanted to tour. He hated being in the studio. Terry liked seeing various bars the world over and getting smashed out of his brain. He was a sort of latent Keith Moon. -- Andy Partridge
  • I saw an interview with Keith Richards. He said, 'How else could a kid in Dartford suddenly connect with and understand what Muddy Waters is singing?' There's a cultural difference, but there's just something in that music that subconsciously or internally you just understand; it just makes sense. -- Paul Weller
  • Hillary Clinton does represent the establishment. I represent, I hope, ordinary Americans, and by the way, who are not all that enamored with the establishment, but I am very proud to have people like Keith Ellison and Raul Grijalva in the House, the co-chairmen of the House Progressive Caucus. -- Bernie Sanders
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