Retire? I can’t spell the word. I’d play in a wheelchair.
KEITH RICHARDSI mean some doctor told me I had six months to live and I went to their funeral.
More Keith Richards Quotes
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I never sleep alone. If there is no one to sleep next to, I’ll sleep next to a stuffed animal. It makes me feel secure and safe. It’s a little embarrassing to admit it; I’m an old man now. It’s important to me though.
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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 never thought I was wasted, but I probably was.
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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’m free of hypochondria– although I’ve got everything else.
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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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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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Women are a beautiful complication, and I look forward to far more beauties and far more complications.
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One of the great things about songwrighting; it’s not an intellectual experience.
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The Stones in a club is still the ultimate rush.
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Everyone talks about rock these days; the problem is they forget about the roll.
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This is the rock ‘n’ roll life, and you had to invent it as you went along. There was no textbook to say how you operate this machinery.
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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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You don’t find a style. A style finds you.
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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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