But I’ve always felt very comfortable on stage, even if I screw up. It always felt like a dog, this is my turf, piss around it. While I’m here, nothing else can happen. All I can do is screw up. Otherwise, have a good time.
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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You don’t find a style. A style finds you.
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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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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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I don’t wave a flag for anything. I’m a musician.
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It might appear that nothing is happening, but that’s actually when it really happens.
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Fame has killed more very talented guys than drugs. Jimi Hendrix didn’t die of an overdose, he died of fame.
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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.
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What is life but playing with time?
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I read the Bible sometimes, but it bores me to death. I just want to know what other people find so bloody fascinating.
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Yes, I’ve been trepanned. That’s quite an interesting experience, especially for my brain surgeon, who saw my thoughts flying around in my brain.
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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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I don’t regret nothing.
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If you are going to get wasted, then get wasted elegantly.
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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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The rock’s easy, but the roll is another thing.
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