The Stones in a club is still the ultimate rush.
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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You don’t find a style. A style finds you.
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I looked upon myself, in a sort of romantic and silly way, as like a laboratory.
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Anything you throw yourself into, you better get yourself out of.
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I like it here in Austin. Anybody got a room?
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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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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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The electric guitar was vital in helping what I’ve achieved where would I be without it? Playing awfully quietly, for a start.
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It’s an addiction and addiction is something I should know something about.
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I occasionally borrow pot from my kids. They do a little weed occasionally. ‘Here, Dad’ – or more likely, ‘Dad, have you got any?’
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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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You’ve got the sun, you’ve got the moon, and you’ve got the Rolling Stones.
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I’m free of hypochondria– although I’ve got everything else.
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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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If you say I’m great, thank you very much. But I know what I am. I could be better, man, you know?
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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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