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.
KEITH RICHARDSIt’s a privilege just to wake up to a new day.
More Keith Richards Quotes
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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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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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I never thought I was wasted, but I probably was.
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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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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’m all for a quiet life. I just didn’t get one.
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This is the rock ‘n’ roll life, and you had to invent it as you went along. There was no textbook to say how you operate this machinery.
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If you’re cool, you don’t know nothing about it. It just is, or you ain’t.
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Whatever side I take, I know well that I will be blamed.
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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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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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But I’ve always felt very comfortable on stage, even if I screw up. It always felt like a dog, this is my turf, piss around it. While I’m here, nothing else can happen. All I can do is screw up. Otherwise, have a good time.
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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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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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I’ve never had a problem with drugs. I’ve had problems with the police.
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