I mean some doctor told me I had six months to live and I went to their funeral.
KEITH RICHARDSIf you stay up, you get the songs that everyone else misses because they’re asleep.
More Keith Richards Quotes
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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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My life is full of broken halos.
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I 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.
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If you are going to get wasted, then get wasted elegantly.
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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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You know, the BBC had not been particularly generous in its deliverance of blues and esoteric kinds of music.
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I’m free of hypochondria– although I’ve got everything else.
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I like it here in Austin. Anybody got a room?
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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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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 am not doing it just for the money or for you. I am doing it for me.
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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 don’t wave a flag for anything. I’m a musician.
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The rock’s easy, but the roll is another thing.
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Nobody wants to get old, but nobody wants to die young either.
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