Retire? I can’t spell the word. I’d play in a wheelchair.
KEITH RICHARDSIf you’re going to kick authority in the teeth, you might as well use both feet.
More Keith Richards Quotes
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I’m not getting old I’m evolving.
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I mean some doctor told me I had six months to live and I went to their funeral.
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Rock and roll ain’t nothing but jazz with a hard backbeat.
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I’ve never had a problem with drugs. I’ve had problems with the police.
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Whatever side I take, I know well that I will be blamed.
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The electric guitar was vital in helping what I’ve achieved where would I be without it? Playing awfully quietly, for a start.
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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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I am not doing it just for the money or for you. I am doing it for me.
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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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It’s one thing to play a Muddy Waters song. It’s another thing to play with him.
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Some things get better with age. Like me.
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My life is full of broken halos.
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Everybody thinks you reach a certain age and you’re a grownup, but it’s not true. Nobody grows up until the day they croak.
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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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If you say I’m great, thank you very much. But I know what I am. I could be better, man, you know?
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