It’s a privilege just to wake up to a new day.
KEITH RICHARDSThe only things Mick and I disagree about is the band, the music and what we do.
More Keith Richards Quotes
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It’s an addiction and addiction is something I should know something about.
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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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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’s got a different way of telling a story – and has different stories to tell.
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What is life but playing with time?
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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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I haven’t stopped smoking; anything.
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You can’t accuse me of anything I haven’t already confessed to.
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What’s the big deal about still working? Retirement age is sixty-five, and that’s at a normal job – and I ain’t there yet.
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But I’m not here just to make records and money. I’m here to say something and to touch other people, sometimes in a cry of desperation: “Do you know this feeling?
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I don’t wave a flag for anything. I’m a musician.
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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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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 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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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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