But 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.
KEITH RICHARDSI don’t encourage anybody to do what I do, you know? Why should you? More for me!
More Keith Richards Quotes
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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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I achieved everything I wanted to achieve by being in the Rolling Stones and making records.
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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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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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Everybody starts by imitating their heroes. For me it was Chuck Berry and Muddy Waters.
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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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The public library is the great equaliser.
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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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Yes, I’ve been trepanned. That’s quite an interesting experience, especially for my brain surgeon, who saw my thoughts flying around in my brain.
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I never thought I was wasted, but I probably was.
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I don’t regret nothing.
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Rock and Roll: Music for the neck downwards.
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I am not doing it just for the money or for you. I am doing it for me.
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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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I have no idea what the audience makes of me.
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