I mean some doctor told me I had six months to live and I went to their funeral.
KEITH RICHARDSWhat is life but playing with time?
More Keith Richards Quotes
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Why would you want to be anything else if you’re Mick Jagger?
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I’m all for a quiet life. I just didn’t get one.
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Some people think I’m a mythical genius, others think I’m a junkie madman.
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I look for ambiguity when I’m writing because life is ambiguous.
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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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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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To make a rock’n’roll record, technology is the least important thing.
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We age not by holding on to youth, but by letting ourselves grow and embracing whatever youthful parts remain.
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Some things get better with age. Like me.
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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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Music works in mysterious ways. Once it goes in you have no idea what it can do to you.
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To a musician or songwriter, your canvas is silence.
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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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To me, the main thing about living on this planet is to know who the hell you are and be real about it. That’s the reason I’m still alive.
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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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