But I’m not here just to make records and money. I’m here to say something and to touch other people, sometimes in a cry of desperation: “Do you know this feeling?
KEITH RICHARDSIt’s a privilege just to wake up to a new day.
More Keith Richards Quotes
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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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I never thought I was wasted, but I probably was.
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I’m all for a quiet life. I just didn’t get one.
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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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The Stones in a club is still the ultimate rush.
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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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Everybody thinks you reach a certain age and you’re a grownup, but it’s not true. Nobody grows up until the day they croak.
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The public library is the great equaliser.
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You don’t find a style. A style finds you.
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You can’t accuse me of anything I haven’t already confessed to.
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One of the great things about songwrighting; it’s not an intellectual experience.
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I’ve never had inner turmoil about all this. You find a lot of people these days who cannot stand to be alone. You could lock me up in solitary for weeks on end, and I’d keep myself amused.
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I haven’t stopped smoking; anything.
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I’m an unpure purist, something like that.
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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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