One minute I’m standing at Ronnie Scott’s getting a standing ovation and the next minute, I’m on a marble slab
KEITH RICHARDSI don’t wave a flag for anything. I’m a musician.
More Keith Richards Quotes
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Some things get better with age. Like me.
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Everyone talks about rock these days; the problem is they forget about the roll.
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When you’re 20, you can’t imagine being 30. When you’re 30, you can’t imagine being 40. When you’re 40, you can’t imagine being 100.
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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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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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Nobody wants to get old, but nobody wants to die young either.
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Retire? I can’t spell the word. I’d play in a wheelchair.
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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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I was number 1 on the who’s likely to die list for 10 years. I was really disappointed when I fell off that list.
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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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We age not by holding on to youth, but by letting ourselves grow and embracing whatever youthful parts remain.
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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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If you say I’m great, thank you very much. But I know what I am. I could be better, man, you know?
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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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It might appear that nothing is happening, but that’s actually when it really happens.
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