The electric guitar was vital in helping what I’ve achieved where would I be without it? Playing awfully quietly, for a start.
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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To me, life is a wild animal. You hope to deal with it when it leaps at you.
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The 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.
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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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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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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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The only things Mick and I disagree about is the band, the music and what we do.
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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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Poison’s not bad. It’s a matter of how much.
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Everyone talks about rock these days; the problem is they forget about the roll.
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Anything you throw yourself into, you better get yourself out of.
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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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Some things get better with age. Like me.
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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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I mean some doctor told me I had six months to live and I went to their funeral.
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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.
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