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.
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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To me, life is a wild animal. You hope to deal with it when it leaps at you.
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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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Whatever side I take, I know well that I will be blamed.
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Songwriting’s a weird game.
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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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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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My life is full of broken halos.
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The idea of retiring is like killing yourself. It’s almost like Hari Kari. I intend to live to a 100 and go down in history.
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Everybody starts by imitating their heroes. For me it was Chuck Berry and Muddy Waters.
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I don’t regret nothing.
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George Jones is a national treasure and should be treated accordingly. A unique style so often emulated even inadvertently.
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I don’t trust doctors. It’s not to say there ain’t some good ones, but on a general level, no, I wouldn’t trust ’em at all.
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One minute I’m standing at Ronnie Scott’s getting a standing ovation and the next minute, I’m on a marble slab
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Love has sold more songs than you’ve had hot dinners.
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I looked upon myself, in a sort of romantic and silly way, as like a laboratory.
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