When you’re 20, you can’t imagine being 30. When you’re 30, you can’t imagine being 40. When you’re 40, you can’t imagine being 100.
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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Some things get better with age. Like me.
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You’ve got the sun, you’ve got the moon, and you’ve got the Rolling Stones.
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Rock and Roll: Music for the neck downwards.
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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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It’s a privilege just to wake up to a new day.
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And then I think we realized, like any young guys, that blues are not learned in a monastery. You’ve got to go out there and get your heart broke and then come back and then you can sing the blues.
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Some people think I’m a mythical genius, others think I’m a junkie madman.
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You don’t find a style. A style finds you.
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If you say I’m great, thank you very much. But I know what I am. I could be better, man, you know?
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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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No broken hearts, no broken necks.
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Songwriting’s a weird game.
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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’m free of hypochondria– although I’ve got everything else.
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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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