Love has sold more songs than you’ve had hot dinners.
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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Rock and Roll: Music for the neck downwards.
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Retire? I can’t spell the word. I’d play in a wheelchair.
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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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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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Guitar is easy, all it takes is 5 fingers, 6 strings and 1 a**hole.
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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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This is the rock ‘n’ roll life, and you had to invent it as you went along. There was no textbook to say how you operate this machinery.
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Women are a beautiful complication, and I look forward to far more beauties and far more complications.
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It’s great to be here. It’s great to be anywhere.
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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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You know, the BBC had not been particularly generous in its deliverance of blues and esoteric kinds of music.
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You don’t find a style. A style finds you.
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One minute I’m standing at Ronnie Scott’s getting a standing ovation and the next minute, I’m on a marble slab
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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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Music is a language that doesn’t speak in particular words. It speaks in emotions, and if it’s in the bones, it’s in the bones.
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