Everyone talks about rock these days; the problem is they forget about the roll.
KEITH RICHARDSI only get ill when I give up drugs. I don’t have a drug problem, I have a police problem.
More Keith Richards Quotes
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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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I haven’t stopped smoking; anything.
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Whatever side I take, I know well that I will be blamed.
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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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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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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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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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My life is full of broken halos.
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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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Everybody starts by imitating their heroes. For me it was Chuck Berry and Muddy Waters.
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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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The Stones in a club is still the ultimate rush.
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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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I’m an unpure purist, something like that.
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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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