I never sleep alone. If there is no one to sleep next to, I’ll sleep next to a stuffed animal. It makes me feel secure and safe. It’s a little embarrassing to admit it; I’m an old man now. It’s important to me though.
KEITH RICHARDSI never plan anything, which is probably the difference between Mick and myself. Mick needs to know what he’s gonna do tomorrow and I’m just happy to wake up to see who’s hanging around. Mick’s rock and I’m roll.
More Keith Richards Quotes
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I look for ambiguity when I’m writing because life is ambiguous.
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Rock and Roll: Music for the neck downwards.
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If you stay up, you get the songs that everyone else misses because they’re asleep.
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It’s great to be here. It’s great to be anywhere.
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You have the sun, you have the moon, you have the air that you breathe – and you have the Rolling Stones!
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If you’ve gotta think about being cool, you ain’t cool.
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Anything you throw yourself into, you better get yourself out of.
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Some people think I’m a mythical genius, others think I’m a junkie madman.
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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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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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If you say I’m great, thank you very much. But I know what I am. I could be better, man, you know?
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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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I don’t regret nothing.
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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, 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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