Retire? I can’t spell the word. I’d play in a wheelchair.
KEITH RICHARDSIf you say I’m great, thank you very much. But I know what I am. I could be better, man, you know?
More Keith Richards Quotes
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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 was number 1 on the who’s likely to die list for 10 years. I was really disappointed when I fell off that list.
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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 have no idea what the audience makes of me.
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Nobody wants to get old, but nobody wants to die young either.
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Let me be clear about this. I don’t have a drug problem. I have a police problem.
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Some things get better with age. Like me.
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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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The electric guitar was vital in helping what I’ve achieved where would I be without it? Playing awfully quietly, for a start.
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I’ve never had my hair cut by anybody, I do it all myself.
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Guitar is easy, all it takes is 5 fingers, 6 strings and 1 a**hole.
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When I listen to what I did under the influence – 10 years of work – I don’t think it either enhanced or impaired me. It didn’t have that much to do with it.
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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.
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You have the sun, you have the moon, you have the air that you breathe – and you have the Rolling Stones!
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Rock and roll ain’t nothing but jazz with a hard backbeat.
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