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.
KEITH RICHARDSI’ve never had a problem with drugs. I’ve had problems with the police.
More Keith Richards Quotes
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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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If you’ve gotta think about being cool, you ain’t cool.
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I don’t encourage anybody to do what I do, you know? Why should you? More for me!
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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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A painter’s got a canvas. The writer’s got reams of empty paper. A musician has silence.
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To make a rock’n’roll record, technology is the least important thing.
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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.
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Love has sold more songs than you’ve had hot dinners.
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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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The Stones in a club is still the ultimate rush.
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Songwriting’s a weird game.
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I’ve never had inner turmoil about all this. You find a lot of people these days who cannot stand to be alone. You could lock me up in solitary for weeks on end, and I’d keep myself amused.
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Whatever side I take, I know well that I will be blamed.
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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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Anything you throw yourself into, you better get yourself out of.
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One of the great things about songwrighting; it’s not an intellectual experience.
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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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Some things get better with age. Like me.
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I’ve never had my hair cut by anybody, I do it all myself.
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I’ve got nothing against daylight. I don’t live totally nocturnally. Only when I feel like it. Which is most of the time.
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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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Fame has killed more very talented guys than drugs. Jimi Hendrix didn’t die of an overdose, he died of fame.
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I personally believe that most people that play an instrument would be able to write a few songs here and there. But they say, “I tried, I can’t do it” and give up and don’t try it again; they get too discouraged.
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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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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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