Why would you want to be anything else if you’re Mick Jagger?
KEITH RICHARDSWomen are a beautiful complication, and I look forward to far more beauties and far more complications.
More Keith Richards Quotes
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I personally believe that most people that play an instrument would be able to write a few songs here and there. But they say, “I tried, I can’t do it” and give up and don’t try it again; they get too discouraged.
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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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Music is a language that doesn’t speak in particular words. It speaks in emotions, and if it’s in the bones, it’s in the bones.
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I occasionally borrow pot from my kids. They do a little weed occasionally. ‘Here, Dad’ – or more likely, ‘Dad, have you got any?’
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Anything you throw yourself into, you better get yourself out of.
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I don’t encourage anybody to do what I do, you know? Why should you? More for me!
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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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Women are a beautiful complication, and I look forward to far more beauties and far more complications.
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You get onstage and make other people feel happy. Make them feel good.
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I’m not getting old I’m evolving.
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What is life but playing with time?
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Yes, I’ve been trepanned. That’s quite an interesting experience, especially for my brain surgeon, who saw my thoughts flying around in my brain.
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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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Nobody wants to get old, but nobody wants to die young either.
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I don’t wave a flag for anything. I’m a musician.
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