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.
KEITH RICHARDSWhat is life but playing with time?
More Keith Richards Quotes
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Guitar is easy, all it takes is 5 fingers, 6 strings and 1 a**hole.
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What Muddy Waters did for us is what we should do for others. It’s the old thing, what you want written on your tombstone as a musician: ‘He passed it on.’
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I was in awe sometimes listening to Mick Taylor . Everything was there in his playing – the melodic touch, a beautiful sustain and a way of reading a song.
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Why would you want to be anything else if you’re Mick Jagger?
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A painter’s got a canvas. The writer’s got reams of empty paper. A musician has silence.
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Songwriting’s a weird game.
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The idea of retiring is like killing yourself. It’s almost like Hari Kari. I intend to live to a 100 and go down in history.
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The public library is the great equaliser.
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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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We all have our own personal laboratories. Life is an experiment, and it’s just a matter of getting the alchemical or chemical combination right.
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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 don’t regret nothing.
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Preaching is tax free. Very little to do with God, a lot to do with money.
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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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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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