Retire? I can’t spell the word. I’d play in a wheelchair.
KEITH RICHARDSYou get onstage and make other people feel happy. Make them feel good.
More Keith Richards Quotes
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I’ve never had a problem with drugs. I’ve had problems with the police.
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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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It might appear that nothing is happening, but that’s actually when it really happens.
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To a musician or songwriter, your canvas is silence.
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I never plan anything, which is probably the difference between Mick and myself. Mick needs to know what he’s gonna do tomorrow and I’m just happy to wake up to see who’s hanging around. Mick’s rock and I’m roll.
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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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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.
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I’ve never had inner turmoil about all this. You find a lot of people these days who cannot stand to be alone. You could lock me up in solitary for weeks on end, and I’d keep myself amused.
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I’m free of hypochondria– although I’ve got everything else.
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It’s a privilege just to wake up to a new day.
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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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The Stones in a club is still the ultimate rush.
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If you stay up, you get the songs that everyone else misses because they’re asleep.
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I achieved everything I wanted to achieve by being in the Rolling Stones and making records.
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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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