Why would you want to be anything else if you’re Mick Jagger?
KEITH RICHARDSI 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.
More Keith Richards Quotes
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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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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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It’s a privilege just to wake up to a new day.
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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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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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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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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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A painter’s got a canvas. The writer’s got reams of empty paper. A musician has silence.
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Whatever side I take, I know well that I will be blamed.
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George Jones is a national treasure and should be treated accordingly. A unique style so often emulated even inadvertently.
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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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Music is a necessity. After food, air, water and warmth, music is the next necessity of life.
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Music works in mysterious ways. Once it goes in you have no idea what it can do to you.
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I’m all for a quiet life. I just didn’t get one.
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I mean, give me a guitar, give me a piano, give me a broom and string, I wouldn’t get bored anywhere.
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