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.
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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Whatever side I take, I know well that I will be blamed.
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Some things get better with age. Like me.
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But I’m not here just to make records and money. I’m here to say something and to touch other people, sometimes in a cry of desperation: “Do you know this feeling?
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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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Preaching is tax free. Very little to do with God, a lot to do with money.
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I looked upon myself, in a sort of romantic and silly way, as like a laboratory.
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Rock and roll ain’t nothing but jazz with a hard backbeat.
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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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It’s one thing to play a Muddy Waters song. It’s another thing to play with him.
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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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We all have our own personal laboratories. Life is an experiment, and it’s just a matter of getting the alchemical or chemical combination right.
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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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When I listen to what I did under the influence – 10 years of work – I don’t think it either enhanced or impaired me. It didn’t have that much to do with it.
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I have no idea what the audience makes of me.
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To a musician or songwriter, your canvas is silence.
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