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’m free of hypochondria– although I’ve got everything else.
More Keith Richards Quotes
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You get onstage and make other people feel happy. Make them feel good.
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I don’t encourage anybody to do what I do, you know? Why should you? More for me!
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Rock and Roll: Music for the neck downwards.
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Rock and roll ain’t nothing but jazz with a hard backbeat.
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Anything you throw yourself into, you better get yourself out of.
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I occasionally borrow pot from my kids. They do a little weed occasionally. ‘Here, Dad’ – or more likely, ‘Dad, have you got any?’
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I mean some doctor told me I had six months to live and I went to their funeral.
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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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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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Everybody starts by imitating their heroes. For me it was Chuck Berry and Muddy Waters.
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Nobody wants to get old, but nobody wants to die young either.
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I achieved everything I wanted to achieve by being in the Rolling Stones and making records.
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My life is full of broken halos.
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The rock’s easy, but the roll is another thing.
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The idea of retiring is like killing yourself. It’s almost like Hari Kari. I intend to live to a 100 and go down in history.
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