Why would you want to be anything else if you’re Mick Jagger?
KEITH RICHARDSI’m all for a quiet life. I just didn’t get one.
More Keith Richards Quotes
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Some things get better with age. Like me.
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I 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.
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You get onstage and make other people feel happy. Make them feel good.
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Fame has killed more very talented guys than drugs. Jimi Hendrix didn’t die of an overdose, he died of fame.
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It might appear that nothing is happening, but that’s actually when it really happens.
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You can’t accuse me of anything I haven’t already confessed to.
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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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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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Music is a necessity. After food, air, water and warmth, music is the next necessity of life.
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There’s a demon in me, and he’s still around. Without the dope, we have a bit more of a chat these days.
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Songwriting’s a weird game.
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You’ve got the sun, you’ve got the moon, and you’ve got the Rolling Stones.
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It’s great to be here. It’s great to be anywhere.
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You know, the BBC had not been particularly generous in its deliverance of blues and esoteric kinds of music.
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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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