I’ve never had inner turmoil about all this. You find a lot of people these days who cannot stand to be alone. You could lock me up in solitary for weeks on end, and I’d keep myself amused.
KEITH RICHARDSNo broken hearts, no broken necks.
More Keith Richards Quotes
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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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Retire? I can’t spell the word. I’d play in a wheelchair.
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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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To 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.
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Some things get better with age. Like me.
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No broken hearts, no broken necks.
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I’m free of hypochondria– although I’ve got everything else.
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Guitar is easy, all it takes is 5 fingers, 6 strings and 1 a**hole.
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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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Women are a beautiful complication, and I look forward to far more beauties and far more complications.
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To me, life is a wild animal. You hope to deal with it when it leaps at you.
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You’ve got the sun, you’ve got the moon, and you’ve got the Rolling Stones.
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Music works in mysterious ways. Once it goes in you have no idea what it can do to you.
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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 mean some doctor told me I had six months to live and I went to their funeral.
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