Women are a beautiful complication, and I look forward to far more beauties and far more complications.
KEITH RICHARDSTo 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.
More Keith Richards Quotes
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What’s the big deal about still working? Retirement age is sixty-five, and that’s at a normal job – and I ain’t there yet.
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You’ve got the sun, you’ve got the moon, and you’ve got the Rolling Stones.
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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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Guitar is easy, all it takes is 5 fingers, 6 strings and 1 a**hole.
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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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Retire? I can’t spell the word. I’d play in a wheelchair.
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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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What is life but playing with time?
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To a musician or songwriter, your canvas is silence.
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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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I mean, give me a guitar, give me a piano, give me a broom and string, I wouldn’t get bored anywhere.
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You don’t find a style. A style finds you.
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I have no idea what the audience makes of me.
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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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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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