This is the rock ‘n’ roll life, and you had to invent it as you went along. There was no textbook to say how you operate this machinery.
KEITH RICHARDSThe 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.
More Keith Richards Quotes
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I never thought I was wasted, but I probably was.
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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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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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I’m not getting old I’m evolving.
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You don’t find a style. A style finds you.
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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 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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I’m all for a quiet life. I just didn’t get one.
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I’ve never had my hair cut by anybody, I do it all myself.
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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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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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To a musician or songwriter, your canvas is silence.
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What is life but playing with time?
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Nobody wants to get old, but nobody wants to die young either.
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I am not doing it just for the money or for you. I am doing it for me.
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