288 Quotes by Keith Richards

Our biggest predictor of a student dropping out is socially and economically disadvantaged background, ... Some of the kids who don't know if they have a roof over their head, it's sort of difficult to motivate them to be in school.

Other than its sense of rhythm, it's music by the tone-deaf for the tone-deaf.

I thought it was about time he owned up and stepped out of that closed shell. I knew he went through bad periods, even if he didn't want to write about it. I used to wrestle with that too. As a writer, you don't want to bore people with your own story. But you eventually realize that you're not the only one who is lonely or having problems.

You get too close to it. You have to wait for the reaction,

There was a time when Mick and I could have argued forever over the most mundane things. The color of the album cover could turn into a life-and-death debate. I used to think he was getting too big for his boots, and he probably thought I was a cantankerous sod.

There's a young man on my team that got 23 rebounds tonight, and that's probably a big reason (for the win). It got to be where we shoot it, miss it, and Paul will get it back.

There's this perception that Mick and I are always fighting. Most of it is very smooth sailing. Every time we stumble across the odd spat, everyone hears about it.

Nothing presented here tonight has convinced us. The program at Edith Williams School is in its infancy. How can you pattern Positive Connections after a program that is not even off the ground yet?

So far I gotta believe (praise) because nobody has said anything else so it must be cool. For a little while when you've finished them . . . I wonder.