If you’re going to kick authority in the teeth, you might as well use both feet.
KEITH RICHARDSThis 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.
More Keith Richards Quotes
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And then I think we realized, like any young guys, that blues are not learned in a monastery. You’ve got to go out there and get your heart broke and then come back and then you can sing the blues.
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It’s a privilege just to wake up to a new day.
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You can’t accuse me of anything I haven’t already confessed to.
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There’s a demon in me, and he’s still around. Without the dope, we have a bit more of a chat these days.
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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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If you say I’m great, thank you very much. But I know what I am. I could be better, man, you know?
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Why would you want to be anything else if you’re Mick Jagger?
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To me, life is a wild animal. You hope to deal with it when it leaps at you.
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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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My life is full of broken halos.
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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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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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Everyone talks about rock these days; the problem is they forget about the roll.
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Love has sold more songs than you’ve had hot dinners.
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If you are going to get wasted, then get wasted elegantly.
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