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 RICHARDSEverybody’s got a different way of telling a story – and has different stories to tell.
More Keith Richards Quotes
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Everybody starts by imitating their heroes. For me it was Chuck Berry and Muddy Waters.
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It’s an addiction and addiction is something I should know something about.
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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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I looked upon myself, in a sort of romantic and silly way, as like a laboratory.
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You get onstage and make other people feel happy. Make them feel good.
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Anything you throw yourself into, you better get yourself out of.
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If you stay up, you get the songs that everyone else misses because they’re asleep.
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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 don’t wave a flag for anything. I’m a musician.
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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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You can’t accuse me of anything I haven’t already confessed to.
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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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This is the rock ‘n’ roll life, and you had to invent it as you went along. There was no textbook to say how you operate this machinery.
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Whatever side I take, I know well that I will be blamed.
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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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