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.
KEITH RICHARDSI’m all for a quiet life. I just didn’t get one.
More Keith Richards Quotes
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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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I’ve never had a problem with drugs. I’ve had problems with the police.
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I don’t encourage anybody to do what I do, you know? Why should you? More for me!
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I am not doing it just for the money or for you. I am doing it for me.
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It’s great to be here. It’s great to be anywhere.
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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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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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It might appear that nothing is happening, but that’s actually when it really happens.
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If you stay up, you get the songs that everyone else misses because they’re asleep.
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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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You know, the BBC had not been particularly generous in its deliverance of blues and esoteric kinds of music.
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We age not by holding on to youth, but by letting ourselves grow and embracing whatever youthful parts remain.
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The public library is the great equaliser.
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Some people think I’m a mythical genius, others think I’m a junkie madman.
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It’s an addiction and addiction is something I should know something about.
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