I’m all for a quiet life. I just didn’t get one.
KEITH RICHARDSWomen are a beautiful complication, and I look forward to far more beauties and far more complications.
More Keith Richards Quotes
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What is life but playing with time?
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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 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’ve never turned blue in someone else’s bathroom. I consider that the height of bad manners.
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Everybody’s got a different way of telling a story – and has different stories to tell.
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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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We age not by holding on to youth, but by letting ourselves grow and embracing whatever youthful parts remain.
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The rock’s easy, but the roll is another thing.
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I’ve got nothing against daylight. I don’t live totally nocturnally. Only when I feel like it. Which is most of the time.
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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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It’s a privilege just to wake up to a new day.
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Let me be clear about this. I don’t have a drug problem. I have a police problem.
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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 mean some doctor told me I had six months to live and I went to their funeral.
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Everybody starts by imitating their heroes. For me it was Chuck Berry and Muddy Waters.
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