I was number 1 on the who’s likely to die list for 10 years. I was really disappointed when I fell off that list.
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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What Muddy Waters did for us is what we should do for others. It’s the old thing, what you want written on your tombstone as a musician: ‘He passed it on.’
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Preaching is tax free. Very little to do with God, a lot to do with money.
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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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The rock’s easy, but the roll is another thing.
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Music is a language that doesn’t speak in particular words. It speaks in emotions, and if it’s in the bones, it’s in the bones.
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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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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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No broken hearts, no broken necks.
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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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I’m not getting old I’m evolving.
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If you stay up, you get the songs that everyone else misses because they’re asleep.
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The public library is the great equaliser.
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George Jones is a national treasure and should be treated accordingly. A unique style so often emulated even inadvertently.
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It’s an addiction and addiction is something I should know something about.
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Guitar is easy, all it takes is 5 fingers, 6 strings and 1 a**hole.
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