Everybody starts by imitating their heroes. For me it was Chuck Berry and Muddy Waters.
KEITH RICHARDSWhat is life but playing with time?
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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Some people think I’m a mythical genius, others think I’m a junkie madman.
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You get onstage and make other people feel happy. Make them feel good.
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I like it here in Austin. Anybody got a room?
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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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I’m all for a quiet life. I just didn’t get one.
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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?
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I don’t wave a flag for anything. I’m a musician.
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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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When you’re 20, you can’t imagine being 30. When you’re 30, you can’t imagine being 40. When you’re 40, you can’t imagine being 100.
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You don’t find a style. A style finds you.
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It might appear that nothing is happening, but that’s actually when it really happens.
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I don’t trust doctors. It’s not to say there ain’t some good ones, but on a general level, no, I wouldn’t trust ’em at all.
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It’s an addiction and addiction is something I should know something about.
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If you’ve gotta think about being cool, you ain’t cool.
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