I’m all for a quiet life. I just didn’t get one.
KEITH RICHARDSI don’t trust doctors. It’s not to say there ain’t some good ones, but on a general level, no, I wouldn’t trust ’em at all.
More Keith Richards Quotes
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Music works in mysterious ways. Once it goes in you have no idea what it can do to you.
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I was number 1 on the who’s likely to die list for 10 years. I was really disappointed when I fell off that list.
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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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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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And then I think we realized, like any young guys, that blues are not learned in a monastery. You’ve got to go out there and get your heart broke and then come back and then you can sing the blues.
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I mean, give me a guitar, give me a piano, give me a broom and string, I wouldn’t get bored anywhere.
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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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There’s a demon in me, and he’s still around. Without the dope, we have a bit more of a chat these days.
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Everybody’s got a different way of telling a story – and has different stories to tell.
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Retire? I can’t spell the word. I’d play in a wheelchair.
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I looked upon myself, in a sort of romantic and silly way, as like a laboratory.
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[John] Belushi was an extreme experience even by my standards.
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If you are going to get wasted, then get wasted elegantly.
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I don’t wave a flag for anything. I’m a musician.
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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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