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 RICHARDSI’ve never had my hair cut by anybody, I do it all myself.
More Keith Richards Quotes
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I achieved everything I wanted to achieve by being in the Rolling Stones and making records.
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Nobody wants to get old, but nobody wants to die young either.
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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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Preaching is tax free. Very little to do with God, a lot to do with money.
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You see, to me, the art of music is listening to it, not playing it. The real art of it is hearing it.
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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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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.
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I’ve never turned blue in someone else’s bathroom. I consider that the height of bad manners.
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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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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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We age not by holding on to youth, but by letting ourselves grow and embracing whatever youthful parts remain.
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I don’t wave a flag for anything. I’m a musician.
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Rock and roll ain’t nothing but jazz with a hard backbeat.
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To a musician or songwriter, your canvas is silence.
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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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