It’s a privilege just to wake up to a new day.
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 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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Women are a beautiful complication, and I look forward to far more beauties and far more complications.
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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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If you stay up, you get the songs that everyone else misses because they’re asleep.
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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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Everybody starts by imitating their heroes. For me it was Chuck Berry and Muddy Waters.
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I’ve never had my hair cut by anybody, I do it all myself.
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I’m all for a quiet life. I just didn’t get one.
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Nobody wants to get old, but nobody wants to die young either.
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My life is full of broken halos.
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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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If you’re cool, you don’t know nothing about it. It just is, or you ain’t.
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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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We age not by holding on to youth, but by letting ourselves grow and embracing whatever youthful parts remain.
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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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Love has sold more songs than you’ve had hot dinners.
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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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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 like it here in Austin. Anybody got a room?
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Rock and Roll: Music for the neck downwards.
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Some people think I’m a mythical genius, others think I’m a junkie madman.
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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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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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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 don’t regret nothing.
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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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