I mean some doctor told me I had six months to live and I went to their funeral.
KEITH RICHARDSI’ve never had my hair cut by anybody, I do it all myself.
More Keith Richards Quotes
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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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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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Music is a necessity. After food, air, water and warmth, music is the next necessity of life.
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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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George Jones is a national treasure and should be treated accordingly. A unique style so often emulated even inadvertently.
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A painter’s got a canvas. The writer’s got reams of empty paper. A musician has silence.
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One minute I’m standing at Ronnie Scott’s getting a standing ovation and the next minute, I’m on a marble slab
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You don’t find a style. A style finds you.
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I’m free of hypochondria– although I’ve got everything else.
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I look for ambiguity when I’m writing because life is ambiguous.
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Songwriting’s a weird game.
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If you’re going to kick authority in the teeth, you might as well use both feet.
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If you stay up, you get the songs that everyone else misses because they’re asleep.
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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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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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