I’m all for a quiet life. I just didn’t get one.
KEITH RICHARDSTrue friends. Hardest thing to find, but you never look for them – they found you ; you just grow into each other
More Keith Richards Quotes
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I’ve never turned blue in someone else’s bathroom. I consider that the height of bad manners.
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And then I think we realized, like any young guys, that blues are not learned in a monastery. You’ve got to go out there and get your heart broke and then come back and then you can sing the blues.
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You have the sun, you have the moon, you have the air that you breathe – and you have the Rolling Stones!
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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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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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Everybody starts by imitating their heroes. For me it was Chuck Berry and Muddy Waters.
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I like it here in Austin. Anybody got a room?
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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 am not doing it just for the money or for you. I am doing it for me.
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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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Love has sold more songs than you’ve had hot dinners.
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It’s one thing to play a Muddy Waters song. It’s another thing to play with him.
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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 never sleep alone. If there is no one to sleep next to, I’ll sleep next to a stuffed animal. It makes me feel secure and safe. It’s a little embarrassing to admit it; I’m an old man now. It’s important to me though.
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Preaching is tax free. Very little to do with God, a lot to do with money.
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