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.
KEITH RICHARDSBut 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.
More Keith Richards Quotes
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Rock and roll ain’t nothing but jazz with a hard backbeat.
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You have the sun, you have the moon, you have the air that you breathe – and you have the Rolling Stones!
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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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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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Songwriting’s a weird game.
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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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Women are a beautiful complication, and I look forward to far more beauties and far more complications.
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I look for ambiguity when I’m writing because life is ambiguous.
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I haven’t stopped smoking; anything.
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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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Everybody starts by imitating their heroes. For me it was Chuck Berry and Muddy Waters.
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My life is full of broken halos.
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The rock’s easy, but the roll is another thing.
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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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