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?
KEITH RICHARDSThe 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.
More Keith Richards Quotes
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I’m all for a quiet life. I just didn’t get one.
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I’ve never had a problem with drugs. I’ve had problems with the police.
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I look for ambiguity when I’m writing because life is ambiguous.
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I never thought I was wasted, but I probably was.
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My father. I snorted my father. He was cremated and I couldn’t resist grinding him up with a little bit of blow.
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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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It’s one thing to play a Muddy Waters song. It’s another thing to play with him.
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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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I’m free of hypochondria– although I’ve got everything else.
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I’m an unpure purist, something like that.
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Some things get better with age. Like me.
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I read the Bible sometimes, but it bores me to death. I just want to know what other people find so bloody fascinating.
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No broken hearts, no broken necks.
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What’s the big deal about still working? Retirement age is sixty-five, and that’s at a normal job – and I ain’t there yet.
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What is life but playing with time?
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