To 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.
KEITH RICHARDSMusic works in mysterious ways. Once it goes in you have no idea what it can do to you.
More Keith Richards Quotes
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Preaching is tax free. Very little to do with God, a lot to do with money.
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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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I’ve never turned blue in someone else’s bathroom. I consider that the height of bad manners.
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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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Everybody thinks you reach a certain age and you’re a grownup, but it’s not true. Nobody grows up until the day they croak.
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I like it here in Austin. Anybody got a room?
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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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Rock and Roll: Music for the neck downwards.
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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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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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What Muddy Waters did for us is what we should do for others. It’s the old thing, what you want written on your tombstone as a musician: ‘He passed it on.’
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I looked upon myself, in a sort of romantic and silly way, as like a laboratory.
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Nobody wants to get old, but nobody wants to die young either.
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What is life but playing with time?
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