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.
KEITH RICHARDSI 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.
More Keith Richards Quotes
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I never thought I was wasted, but I probably was.
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Preaching is tax free. Very little to do with God, a lot to do with money.
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If you are going to get wasted, then get wasted elegantly.
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I looked upon myself, in a sort of romantic and silly way, as like a laboratory.
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The public library is the great equaliser.
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I’m not getting old I’m evolving.
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Everybody thinks you reach a certain age and you’re a grownup, but it’s not true. Nobody grows up until the day they croak.
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I have no idea what the audience makes of me.
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One minute I’m standing at Ronnie Scott’s getting a standing ovation and the next minute, I’m on a marble slab
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When I listen to what I did under the influence – 10 years of work – I don’t think it either enhanced or impaired me. It didn’t have that much to do with it.
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If you’ve gotta think about being cool, you ain’t cool.
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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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I’m all for a quiet life. I just didn’t get one.
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It’s a privilege just to wake up to a new day.
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Retire? I can’t spell the word. I’d play in a wheelchair.
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