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, life is a wild animal. You hope to deal with it when it leaps at you.
More Keith Richards Quotes
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I’m not getting old I’m evolving.
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I never plan anything, which is probably the difference between Mick and myself. Mick needs to know what he’s gonna do tomorrow and I’m just happy to wake up to see who’s hanging around. Mick’s rock and I’m roll.
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I’m all for a quiet life. I just didn’t get one.
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Rock and roll ain’t nothing but jazz with a hard backbeat.
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I mean some doctor told me I had six months to live and I went to their funeral.
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Everyone talks about rock these days; the problem is they forget about the roll.
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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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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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Songwriting’s a weird game.
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I like it here in Austin. Anybody got a room?
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I’m free of hypochondria– although I’ve got everything else.
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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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Whatever side I take, I know well that I will be blamed.
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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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No broken hearts, no broken necks.
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