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.
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’ve never turned blue in someone else’s bathroom. I consider that the height of bad manners.
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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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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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I have no idea what the audience makes of me.
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Everybody’s got a different way of telling a story – and has different stories to tell.
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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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Some things get better with age. Like me.
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I never thought I was wasted, but I probably was.
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Poison’s not bad. It’s a matter of how much.
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I like it here in Austin. Anybody got a room?
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I only get ill when I give up drugs. I don’t have a drug problem, I have a police problem.
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It’s one thing to play a Muddy Waters song. It’s another thing to play with him.
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I don’t encourage anybody to do what I do, you know? Why should you? More for me!
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I’m not getting old I’m evolving.
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You get onstage and make other people feel happy. Make them feel good.
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