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.
KEITH RICHARDSIf you’ve gotta think about being cool, you ain’t cool.
More Keith Richards Quotes
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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 personally believe that most people that play an instrument would be able to write a few songs here and there. But they say, “I tried, I can’t do it” and give up and don’t try it again; they get too discouraged.
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It’s great to be here. It’s great to be anywhere.
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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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I don’t regret nothing.
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Some things get better with age. Like me.
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To a musician or songwriter, your canvas is silence.
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The Stones in a club is still the ultimate rush.
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You’ve got the sun, you’ve got the moon, and you’ve got the Rolling Stones.
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But 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.
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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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To me, life is a wild animal. You hope to deal with it when it leaps at you.
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And then I think we realized, like any young guys, that blues are not learned in a monastery. You’ve got to go out there and get your heart broke and then come back and then you can sing the blues.
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To me, my biggest fear is getting a big head, and that is when I get the hammer. Because it’s very easy in this game to believe you’re something special.
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Music is a necessity. After food, air, water and warmth, music is the next necessity of life.
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