Retire? I can’t spell the word. I’d play in a wheelchair.
KEITH RICHARDSWhy would you want to be anything else if you’re Mick Jagger?
More Keith Richards Quotes
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Everybody starts by imitating their heroes. For me it was Chuck Berry and Muddy Waters.
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You’ve got the sun, you’ve got the moon, and you’ve got the Rolling Stones.
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One of the great things about songwrighting; it’s not an intellectual experience.
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Guitar is easy, all it takes is 5 fingers, 6 strings and 1 a**hole.
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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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I like it here in Austin. Anybody got a room?
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I’m all for a quiet life. I just didn’t get one.
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The public library is the great equaliser.
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I occasionally borrow pot from my kids. They do a little weed occasionally. ‘Here, Dad’ – or more likely, ‘Dad, have you got any?’
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I’m free of hypochondria– although I’ve got everything else.
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I was in awe sometimes listening to Mick Taylor . Everything was there in his playing – the melodic touch, a beautiful sustain and a way of reading a song.
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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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I’ve never had a problem with drugs. I’ve had problems with the police.
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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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Why would you want to be anything else if you’re Mick Jagger?
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