One minute I’m standing at Ronnie Scott’s getting a standing ovation and the next minute, I’m on a marble slab
KEITH RICHARDSThe rock’s easy, but the roll is another thing.
More Keith Richards Quotes
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Why would you want to be anything else if you’re Mick Jagger?
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[John] Belushi was an extreme experience even by my standards.
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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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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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Preaching is tax free. Very little to do with God, a lot to do with money.
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What’s the big deal about still working? Retirement age is sixty-five, and that’s at a normal job – and I ain’t there yet.
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Let me be clear about this. I don’t have a drug problem. I have a police problem.
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Songwriting’s a weird game.
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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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If you’re cool, you don’t know nothing about it. It just is, or you ain’t.
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Everybody starts by imitating their heroes. For me it was Chuck Berry and Muddy Waters.
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If you’re going to kick authority in the teeth, you might as well use both feet.
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If you don’t know the blues there’s no point in picking up the guitar and playing rock and roll or any other form of popular music.
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What Muddy Waters did for us is what we should do for others. It’s the old thing, what you want written on your tombstone as a musician: ‘He passed it on.’
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Some things get better with age. Like me.
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