If you stay up, you get the songs that everyone else misses because they’re asleep.
KEITH RICHARDSI was number 1 on the who’s likely to die list for 10 years. I was really disappointed when I fell off that list.
More Keith Richards Quotes
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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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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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I’ve never turned blue in someone else’s bathroom. I consider that the height of bad manners.
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My father. I snorted my father. He was cremated and I couldn’t resist grinding him up with a little bit of blow.
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I never thought I was wasted, but I probably was.
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To make a rock’n’roll record, technology is the least important thing.
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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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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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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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I consider my job [being a musician] is to have a little idea and nurture it and put it in some form that everybody else can understand and then sort of pass it on. It’s really a passing through. In other words, you receive and you transmit.
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Everyone talks about rock these days; the problem is they forget about the roll.
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Let me be clear about this. I don’t have a drug problem. I have a police problem.
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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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