If you stay up, you get the songs that everyone else misses because they’re asleep.
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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Everybody starts by imitating their heroes. For me it was Chuck Berry and Muddy Waters.
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I’m an unpure purist, something like that.
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If you’ve gotta think about being cool, you ain’t cool.
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I’m not getting old I’m evolving.
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And then I think we realized, like any young guys, that blues are not learned in a monastery. You’ve got to go out there and get your heart broke and then come back and then you can sing the blues.
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What is life but playing with time?
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I have no idea what the audience makes of me.
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When I listen to what I did under the influence – 10 years of work – I don’t think it either enhanced or impaired me. It didn’t have that much to do with it.
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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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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.
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You get onstage and make other people feel happy. Make them feel good.
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Poison’s not bad. It’s a matter of how much.
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If you are going to get wasted, then get wasted elegantly.
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I don’t regret nothing.
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I looked upon myself, in a sort of romantic and silly way, as like a laboratory.
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