To me, my biggest fear is getting a big head, and that is when I get the hammer. Because it’s very easy in this game to believe you’re something special.
KEITH RICHARDSI occasionally borrow pot from my kids. They do a little weed occasionally. ‘Here, Dad’ – or more likely, ‘Dad, have you got any?’
More Keith Richards Quotes
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You have the sun, you have the moon, you have the air that you breathe – and you have the Rolling Stones!
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When you are growing up there are two institutional places that affect you most powerfully: the church, which belongs to God, and the public library, which belongs to you.
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I don’t wave a flag for anything. I’m a musician.
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I don’t trust doctors. It’s not to say there ain’t some good ones, but on a general level, no, I wouldn’t trust ’em at all.
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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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Some things get better with age. Like me.
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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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You don’t find a style. A style finds you.
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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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Retire? I can’t spell the word. I’d play in a wheelchair.
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I achieved everything I wanted to achieve by being in the Rolling Stones and making records.
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I looked upon myself, in a sort of romantic and silly way, as like a laboratory.
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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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When you’re 20, you can’t imagine being 30. When you’re 30, you can’t imagine being 40. When you’re 40, you can’t imagine being 100.
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The public library is the great equaliser.
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