If you’ve gotta think about being cool, you ain’t cool.
KEITH RICHARDSI 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.
More Keith Richards Quotes
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I haven’t stopped smoking; anything.
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No broken hearts, no broken necks.
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The rock’s easy, but the roll is another thing.
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If you don’t know the blues there’s no point in picking up the guitar and playing rock and roll or any other form of popular music.
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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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The Stones in a club is still the ultimate rush.
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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, 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.
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I don’t wave a flag for anything. I’m a musician.
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You have the sun, you have the moon, you have the air that you breathe – and you have the Rolling Stones!
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Songwriting’s a weird game.
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What is life but playing with 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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I read the Bible sometimes, but it bores me to death. I just want to know what other people find so bloody fascinating.
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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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