The only things Mick and I disagree about is the band, the music and what we do.
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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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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I’ve never had my hair cut by anybody, I do it all myself.
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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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I am not doing it just for the money or for you. I am doing it for me.
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I’ve got nothing against daylight. I don’t live totally nocturnally. Only when I feel like it. Which is most of the time.
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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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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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I don’t regret nothing.
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My father. I snorted my father. He was cremated and I couldn’t resist grinding him up with a little bit of blow.
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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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Why would you want to be anything else if you’re Mick Jagger?
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The rock’s easy, but the roll is another thing.
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Anything you throw yourself into, you better get yourself out of.
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Nobody wants to get old, but nobody wants to die young either.
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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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