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.
KEITH RICHARDSMusic works in mysterious ways. Once it goes in you have no idea what it can do to you.
More Keith Richards Quotes
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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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You know, the BBC had not been particularly generous in its deliverance of blues and esoteric kinds of music.
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It’s an addiction and addiction is something I should know something about.
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It’s great to be here. It’s great to be anywhere.
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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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My life is full of broken halos.
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I don’t regret nothing.
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I like it here in Austin. Anybody got a room?
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My father. I snorted my father. He was cremated and I couldn’t resist grinding him up with a little bit of blow.
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Whatever side I take, I know well that I will be blamed.
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What is life but playing with time?
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Why would you want to be anything else if you’re Mick Jagger?
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If you are going to get wasted, then get wasted elegantly.
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It might appear that nothing is happening, but that’s actually when it really happens.
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I looked upon myself, in a sort of romantic and silly way, as like a laboratory.
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