Nobody wants to get old, but nobody wants to die young either.
KEITH RICHARDSIt’s great to be here. It’s great to be anywhere.
More Keith Richards Quotes
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I like it here in Austin. Anybody got a room?
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Rock and Roll: Music for the neck downwards.
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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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It’s one thing to play a Muddy Waters song. It’s another thing to play with him.
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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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When you are growing up there are two institutional places that affect you most powerfully: the church, which belongs to God, and the public library, which belongs to you.
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I’ve never had my hair cut by anybody, I do it all myself.
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If you stay up, you get the songs that everyone else misses because they’re asleep.
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What is life but playing with time?
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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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I’ve never had a problem with drugs. I’ve had problems with the police.
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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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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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Love has sold more songs than you’ve had hot dinners.
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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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