Nobody wants to get old, but nobody wants to die young either.
KEITH RICHARDSBut 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?
More Keith Richards Quotes
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Rock and Roll: Music for the neck downwards.
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My life is full of broken halos.
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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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I’ve never had my hair cut by anybody, I do it all myself.
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Rock and roll ain’t nothing but jazz with a hard backbeat.
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I never sleep alone. If there is no one to sleep next to, I’ll sleep next to a stuffed animal. It makes me feel secure and safe. It’s a little embarrassing to admit it; I’m an old man now. It’s important to me though.
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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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I don’t wave a flag for anything. I’m a musician.
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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’m all for a quiet life. I just didn’t get one.
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True friends. Hardest thing to find, but you never look for them – they found you ; you just grow into each other
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The public library is the great equaliser.
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The only things Mick and I disagree about is the band, the music and what we do.
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I personally believe that most people that play an instrument would be able to write a few songs here and there. But they say, “I tried, I can’t do it” and give up and don’t try it again; they get too discouraged.
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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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