Nobody wants to get old, but nobody wants to die young either.
KEITH RICHARDSEverybody thinks you reach a certain age and you’re a grownup, but it’s not true. Nobody grows up until the day they croak.
More Keith Richards Quotes
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If you stay up, you get the songs that everyone else misses because they’re asleep.
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If you’ve gotta think about being cool, you ain’t cool.
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I 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.
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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 like it here in Austin. Anybody got a room?
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It’s a privilege just to wake up to a new day.
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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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We all have our own personal laboratories. Life is an experiment, and it’s just a matter of getting the alchemical or chemical combination right.
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One minute I’m standing at Ronnie Scott’s getting a standing ovation and the next minute, I’m on a marble slab
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If you’re cool, you don’t know nothing about it. It just is, or you ain’t.
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Rock and Roll: Music for the neck downwards.
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It’s one thing to play a Muddy Waters song. It’s another thing to play with him.
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Guitar is easy, all it takes is 5 fingers, 6 strings and 1 a**hole.
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When you are growing up there are two institutional places that affect you most powerfully: the church, which belongs to God, and the public library, which belongs to you.
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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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