Some things get better with age. Like me.
KEITH RICHARDSA painter’s got a canvas. The writer’s got reams of empty paper. A musician has silence.
More Keith Richards Quotes
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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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I read the Bible sometimes, but it bores me to death. I just want to know what other people find so bloody fascinating.
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I look for ambiguity when I’m writing because life is ambiguous.
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I’ve never had a problem with drugs. I’ve had problems with the police.
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Poison’s not bad. It’s a matter of how much.
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If you don’t know the blues there’s no point in picking up the guitar and playing rock and roll or any other form of popular music.
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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 don’t wave a flag for anything. I’m a musician.
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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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Why would you want to be anything else if you’re Mick Jagger?
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My father. I snorted my father. He was cremated and I couldn’t resist grinding him up with a little bit of blow.
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What is life but playing with time?
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No broken hearts, no broken necks.
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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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I mean some doctor told me I had six months to live and I went to their funeral.
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