I don’t encourage anybody to do what I do, you know? Why should you? More for me!
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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George Jones is a national treasure and should be treated accordingly. A unique style so often emulated even inadvertently.
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Fame has killed more very talented guys than drugs. Jimi Hendrix didn’t die of an overdose, he died of fame.
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Rock and Roll: Music for the neck downwards.
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If you’re cool, you don’t know nothing about it. It just is, or you ain’t.
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Everybody thinks you reach a certain age and you’re a grownup, but it’s not true. Nobody grows up until the day they croak.
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I’m not getting old I’m evolving.
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I’m all for a quiet life. I just didn’t get one.
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You don’t find a style. A style finds you.
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A painter’s got a canvas. The writer’s got reams of empty paper. A musician has silence.
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Why would you want to be anything else if you’re Mick Jagger?
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Music is a necessity. After food, air, water and warmth, music is the next necessity of life.
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But I’m not here just to make records and money. I’m here to say something and to touch other people, sometimes in a cry of desperation: “Do you know this feeling?
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You can’t accuse me of anything I haven’t already confessed to.
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Yes, I’ve been trepanned. That’s quite an interesting experience, especially for my brain surgeon, who saw my thoughts flying around in my brain.
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