Some things get better with age. Like me.
KEITH RICHARDSTo me, the main thing about living on this planet is to know who the hell you are and be real about it. That’s the reason I’m still alive.
More Keith Richards Quotes
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I’m all for a quiet life. I just didn’t get one.
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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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Everyone talks about rock these days; the problem is they forget about the roll.
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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’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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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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I don’t regret nothing.
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I’ve never had a problem with drugs. I’ve had problems with the police.
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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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Why would you want to be anything else if you’re Mick Jagger?
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A painter’s got a canvas. The writer’s got reams of empty paper. A musician has silence.
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True friends. Hardest thing to find, but you never look for them – they found you ; you just grow into each other
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I was in awe sometimes listening to Mick Taylor . Everything was there in his playing – the melodic touch, a beautiful sustain and a way of reading a song.
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