Why would you want to be anything else if you’re Mick Jagger?
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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The idea of retiring is like killing yourself. It’s almost like Hari Kari. I intend to live to a 100 and go down in history.
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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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If you don’t know the blues there’s no point in picking up the guitar and playing rock and roll or any other form of popular music.
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There’s a demon in me, and he’s still around. Without the dope, we have a bit more of a chat these days.
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I’ve never had a problem with drugs. I’ve had problems with the police.
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But I’m not here just to make records and money. I’m here to say something and to touch other people, sometimes in a cry of desperation: “Do you know this feeling?
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Some things get better with age. Like me.
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Music works in mysterious ways. Once it goes in you have no idea what it can do to you.
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I’m all for a quiet life. I just didn’t get one.
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I haven’t stopped smoking; anything.
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Retire? I can’t spell the word. I’d play in a wheelchair.
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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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The public library is the great equaliser.
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Everybody thinks you reach a certain age and you’re a grownup, but it’s not true. Nobody grows up until the day they croak.
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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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