If you’re going to kick authority in the teeth, you might as well use both feet.
KEITH RICHARDSYes, I’ve been trepanned. That’s quite an interesting experience, especially for my brain surgeon, who saw my thoughts flying around in my brain.
More Keith Richards Quotes
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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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The public library is the great equaliser.
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Why would you want to be anything else if you’re Mick Jagger?
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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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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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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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Fame has killed more very talented guys than drugs. Jimi Hendrix didn’t die of an overdose, he died of fame.
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Everybody’s got a different way of telling a story – and has different stories to tell.
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The Stones in a club is still the ultimate rush.
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Everybody thinks you reach a certain age and you’re a grownup, but it’s not true. Nobody grows up until the day they croak.
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You know, the BBC had not been particularly generous in its deliverance of blues and esoteric kinds of music.
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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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It’s a privilege just to wake up to a new day.
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Whatever side I take, I know well that I will be blamed.
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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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