I mean some doctor told me I had six months to live and I went to their funeral.
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 am not doing it just for the money or for you. I am doing it for me.
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I never sleep alone. If there is no one to sleep next to, I’ll sleep next to a stuffed animal. It makes me feel secure and safe. It’s a little embarrassing to admit it; I’m an old man now. It’s important to me though.
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[John] Belushi was an extreme experience even by my standards.
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I read the Bible sometimes, but it bores me to death. I just want to know what other people find so bloody fascinating.
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What Muddy Waters did for us is what we should do for others. It’s the old thing, what you want written on your tombstone as a musician: ‘He passed it on.’
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I’ve never turned blue in someone else’s bathroom. I consider that the height of bad manners.
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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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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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We age not by holding on to youth, but by letting ourselves grow and embracing whatever youthful parts remain.
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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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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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You can’t accuse me of anything I haven’t already confessed to.
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I’ve never had a problem with drugs. I’ve had problems with the police.
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I haven’t stopped smoking; anything.
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Anything you throw yourself into, you better get yourself out of.
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