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.
KEITH RICHARDSI mean, give me a guitar, give me a piano, give me a broom and string, I wouldn’t get bored anywhere.
More Keith Richards Quotes
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Everyone talks about rock these days; the problem is they forget about the roll.
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What is life but playing with time?
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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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Retire? I can’t spell the word. I’d play in a wheelchair.
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Fame has killed more very talented guys than drugs. Jimi Hendrix didn’t die of an overdose, he died of fame.
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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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I consider my job [being a musician] is to have a little idea and nurture it and put it in some form that everybody else can understand and then sort of pass it on. It’s really a passing through. In other words, you receive and you transmit.
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I read the Bible sometimes, but it bores me to death. I just want to know what other people find so bloody fascinating.
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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.
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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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If you don’t know the blues there’s no point in picking up the guitar and playing rock and roll or any other form of popular music.
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Yes, I’ve been trepanned. That’s quite an interesting experience, especially for my brain surgeon, who saw my thoughts flying around in my brain.
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I have no idea what the audience makes of me.
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Guitar is easy, all it takes is 5 fingers, 6 strings and 1 a**hole.
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You can’t accuse me of anything I haven’t already confessed to.
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