If you say I’m great, thank you very much. But I know what I am. I could be better, man, you know?
KEITH RICHARDSI’m all for a quiet life. I just didn’t get one.
More Keith Richards Quotes
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To me, my biggest fear is getting a big head, and that is when I get the hammer. Because it’s very easy in this game to believe you’re something special.
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What is life but playing with time?
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I like it here in Austin. Anybody got a room?
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Everybody starts by imitating their heroes. For me it was Chuck Berry and Muddy Waters.
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Rock and Roll: Music for the neck downwards.
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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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True friends. Hardest thing to find, but you never look for them – they found you ; you just grow into each other
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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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You see, to me, the art of music is listening to it, not playing it. The real art of it is hearing it.
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Guitar is easy, all it takes is 5 fingers, 6 strings and 1 a**hole.
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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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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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I’ve never had a problem with drugs. I’ve had problems with the police.
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The rock’s easy, but the roll is another thing.
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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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