But I’ve always felt very comfortable on stage, even if I screw up. It always felt like a dog, this is my turf, piss around it. While I’m here, nothing else can happen. All I can do is screw up. Otherwise, have a good time.
KEITH RICHARDSIf you are going to get wasted, then get wasted elegantly.
More Keith Richards Quotes
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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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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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What Muddy Waters did for us is what we should do for others. It’s the old thing, what you want written on your tombstone as a musician: ‘He passed it on.’
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Rock and Roll: Music for the neck downwards.
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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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I mean some doctor told me I had six months to live and I went to their funeral.
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I mean, give me a guitar, give me a piano, give me a broom and string, I wouldn’t get bored anywhere.
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The electric guitar was vital in helping what I’ve achieved where would I be without it? Playing awfully quietly, for a start.
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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 achieved everything I wanted to achieve by being in the Rolling Stones and making records.
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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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I was number 1 on the who’s likely to die list for 10 years. I was really disappointed when I fell off that list.
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Everybody starts by imitating their heroes. For me it was Chuck Berry and Muddy Waters.
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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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What is life but playing with time?
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