To me, the main thing about living on this planet is to know who the hell you are and be real about it. That’s the reason I’m still alive.
KEITH RICHARDSWhatever side I take, I know well that I will be blamed.
More Keith Richards Quotes
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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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What is life but playing with time?
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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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It’s great to be here. It’s great to be anywhere.
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The only things Mick and I disagree about is the band, the music and what we do.
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[John] Belushi was an extreme experience even by my standards.
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I don’t trust doctors. It’s not to say there ain’t some good ones, but on a general level, no, I wouldn’t trust ’em at all.
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Anything you throw yourself into, you better get yourself out of.
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If you don’t know the blues there’s no point in picking up the guitar and playing rock and roll or any other form of popular music.
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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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Retire? I can’t spell the word. I’d play in a wheelchair.
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Preaching is tax free. Very little to do with God, a lot to do with money.
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One minute I’m standing at Ronnie Scott’s getting a standing ovation and the next minute, I’m on a marble slab
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Music works in mysterious ways. Once it goes in you have no idea what it can do to you.
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If you stay up, you get the songs that everyone else misses because they’re asleep.
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