The rock’s easy, but the roll is another thing.
KEITH RICHARDSRetire? I can’t spell the word. I’d play in a wheelchair.
More Keith Richards Quotes
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To me, life is a wild animal. You hope to deal with it when it leaps at you.
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You don’t find a style. A style finds you.
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Anything you throw yourself into, you better get yourself out of.
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Why would you want to be anything else if you’re Mick Jagger?
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This is the rock ‘n’ roll life, and you had to invent it as you went along. There was no textbook to say how you operate this machinery.
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One minute I’m standing at Ronnie Scott’s getting a standing ovation and the next minute, I’m on a marble slab
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To me, my biggest fear is getting a big head, and that is when I get the hammer. Because it’s very easy in this game to believe you’re something special.
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Whatever side I take, I know well that I will be blamed.
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To me, the main thing about living on this planet is to know who the hell you are and be real about it. That’s the reason I’m still alive.
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I mean some doctor told me I had six months to live and I went to their funeral.
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Nobody wants to get old, but nobody wants to die young either.
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I consider my job [being a musician] is to have a little idea and nurture it and put it in some form that everybody else can understand and then sort of pass it on. It’s really a passing through. In other words, you receive and you transmit.
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What is life but playing with time?
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I’m not getting old I’m evolving.
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We age not by holding on to youth, but by letting ourselves grow and embracing whatever youthful parts remain.
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