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.
KEITH RICHARDSIf you say I’m great, thank you very much. But I know what I am. I could be better, man, you know?
More Keith Richards Quotes
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I’ve never turned blue in someone else’s bathroom. I consider that the height of bad manners.
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I’ve never had my hair cut by anybody, I do it all myself.
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It’s a privilege just to wake up to a new day.
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What is life but playing with time?
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I was in awe sometimes listening to Mick Taylor . Everything was there in his playing – the melodic touch, a beautiful sustain and a way of reading a song.
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I looked upon myself, in a sort of romantic and silly way, as like a laboratory.
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Some people think I’m a mythical genius, others think I’m a junkie madman.
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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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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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[John] Belushi was an extreme experience even by my standards.
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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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Everyone talks about rock these days; the problem is they forget about the roll.
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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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Everybody starts by imitating their heroes. For me it was Chuck Berry and Muddy Waters.
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If you’re cool, you don’t know nothing about it. It just is, or you ain’t.
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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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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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I don’t regret nothing.
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You know, the BBC had not been particularly generous in its deliverance of blues and esoteric kinds of music.
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You can’t accuse me of anything I haven’t already confessed to.
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I’m not getting old I’m evolving.
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I never thought I was wasted, but I probably was.
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I’ve never had a problem with drugs. I’ve had problems with the police.
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Preaching is tax free. Very little to do with God, a lot to do with money.
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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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I mean some doctor told me I had six months to live and I went to their funeral.
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