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On Keith Richards: He's like a monkey with arthritis. -- Elton John
I'd like to make a show with Keith Richards. -- Anthony Bourdain
I have known Michael Richards for something like 20 years. We're friends. -- Paul Mooney
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Keith Richards is the only man who can make the Osbournes look Amish. -- Robin Williams
Lloyd Richards is another director who was like that, who was a teacher. -- Viola Davis
I love those Keith Richards solo records, but it's not the Rolling Stones. -- Nikki Sixx
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'm militantly anti-drug abuse but love everything Keith Richards and some other drug goofballs do. -- Ted Nugent
I know Mick Jagger wouldn't tour without Keith Richards and call it the Rolling Stones. -- Richie Sambora
Gene Richards swings, the ball bounces foul and hits him in the head. No harm done. -- Jerry Coleman
The run I was on made Sinatra, Flynn, Jagger, Richards, all of them look like droopy-eyed armless children. -- Charlie Sheen
I looked at Mick Jagger and Keith Richards and the boys up there thinking, I want to be that. -- Sammy Hagar
He was tall and scrawny with a face that could be mistaken with Keith Richards on a bad day. -- Kelley Armstrong
When Viv Richards retired I thought it was end of entertainment. But then came Sehwag,the King of entertainment! -- Rameez Raja
I always thought I looked kind of like Keith Richards, and sometimes I think I look like Michael Jackson. -- Natalie Massenet
Marty Richards is an angel on Earth. A producer that does what he says he'll do. He helped me greatly. -- Rip Taylor
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
I had Micah Richards as a player at 16 and he was a man then. What is he now? A bigger man, probably -- Kevin Keegan
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
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 mean my goal is to get Michael Richards to do stand up at the Laugh Factory to an all black audience. -- Daniel Tosh
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
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
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
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
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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
Starship Troopers was great. It was great fun to work on something with blue screens and big budget special effects. Denise Richards was nice to look at too, of course. -- Neil Patrick Harris
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
Look. I was a superhero in the '90s. I said so at the time. McCartney, Weller, Townshend, Richards, my first album's better than all their first albums. Even they'd admit that. -- Noel Gallagher
I was very much influenced by a great book by the scholar Neil Richards called Intellectual Privacy, that [Louis] Brandeis changed his mind on the proper balance between dignity and free speech. -- Jeffrey Rosen
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
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
I always thought it was more interesting to think about Reed Richards. As you know, he had the ability to stretch, and sexually, that would seem to be a great asset in many areas. -- Stan Lee
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
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
Running for governor of Texas against a very popular governor [incumbent Ann Richards] was deemed to be risky. Everybody thought I would lose. As I put in my book, my mother said, "You're going to lose!" -- George W. Bush
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
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
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
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
Sir Gordon Richards was the most successful jockey - flat or jumps - there's ever been: champion jockey for 26 years. He set a record of 269 winners in the season 55 years before I broke it. That was my greatest achievement. -- Tony McCoy
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
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
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
There is a dark side. I tend not to be as optimistic as Mary Richards. I have an anger in me that I carry from my childhood experiences - I expect a lot of myself and I'm not too kind to myself. -- Mary Tyler Moore
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
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
Like many children of the rich and famous, Paris Hilton didn't always get to spend quality time with her parents, especially her mother. A socially ambitious young woman, Kathleen Elizabeth Avanzino Richards Hilton, who had married into the celebrated Hilton Hotel family, was often out and about. -- Jerry Oppenheimer
Virat Kohli has so far shown that he has more ability and talent than anybody else, and if he can play till 32 or 34 with same fitness and without injuries, he will come to a point where not even Vivian Richards neither Sachin Tendulkar had such a record. -- Kapil Dev
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
I'm not a big crime reader, but I'm reading Michael Connelly's 'The Reversal.' I'm going back to his novels. I'm also reading Keith Richards' 'Life.' I'm always fascinated by the transition from the innocent late '60s and early '70s and the youth culture becoming an industry. -- Jo Nesbo
It made me sick - my name's Keith Richards. It hardly makes it against Howlin' Wolf or Muddy Waters, does it? On my first guitar I had Boy Blue written - just pathetic. But that was as good as I got at the time. -- Keith Richards
You have to age gracefully. And that's what I love about Keith Richards. That's what I love about the Rolling Stones. They are aging gracefully. They are falling apart at the seams right before our eyes, and they are doing it gracefully. And that's the most beautiful thing that we can do. -- Nikki Sixx
I went to high school in Columbia. I met my first wife, Richards, whom I married while I was working on a B.S. in chemistry at Georgia Tech. She bore Louise, and I studied. I learned most of the useful technical things - math, physics, chemistry - that I now use during those four years. -- Kary Mullis
I don't like to waste notes, not even one. I like to put the right note in the right place, and my influences have always been those kinds of players. Keith Richards comes to mind, and I really like Nils Lofgren's soloing, because he's so melodic. I love John Lennon's rhythm playing, and George Harrison was an incredible guitarist. -- Johnny Marr
I don't know, but I always loved that image of a girl putting toenail polish on a guy - her boyfriend, or something like that. Or a guy waking up in the morning and reaching over and putting on his girlfriend's shirt. Like Keith Richards putting on one of Anita Pallenberg's blouses, or Courtney Love putting nail polish on Kurt Cobain. -- Marc Jacobs
I started with Sidney Poitier and Ruby Dee and Lou Gossett, Jr. and the rest of the wonderful cast of 'A Raisin In The Sun.' We were directed by the great Lloyd Richards. The play was written by the wonderful Lorraine Hansberry, and it was produced by Phil Rose. That's where my start was, so... not a bad way to start. -- Glynn Turman
When I first started doing comedy years ago, I used to be the biggest Michael Richards fan. I used to love this dude. He was on a TV show called 'Fridays,' and man, he was tall and lanky - and I was tall and lanky. I love physical comedy, and he was a physical comedian, and I said, 'Man, I love this guy.' -- J. B. Smoove

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