I mean some doctor told me I had six months to live and I went to their funeral.
KEITH RICHARDSBut I’ve always felt very comfortable on stage, even if I screw up. It always felt like a dog, this is my turf, piss around it. While I’m here, nothing else can happen. All I can do is screw up. Otherwise, have a good time.
More Keith Richards Quotes
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What is life but playing with time?
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I like it here in Austin. Anybody got a room?
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To make a rock’n’roll record, technology is the least important thing.
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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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If you stay up, you get the songs that everyone else misses because they’re asleep.
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It’s a privilege just to wake up to a new day.
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We all have our own personal laboratories. Life is an experiment, and it’s just a matter of getting the alchemical or chemical combination right.
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I’m an unpure purist, something like that.
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The electric guitar was vital in helping what I’ve achieved where would I be without it? Playing awfully quietly, for a start.
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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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Everybody’s got a different way of telling a story – and has different stories to tell.
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The public library is the great equaliser.
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Rock and Roll: Music for the neck downwards.
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You get onstage and make other people feel happy. Make them feel good.
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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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