I’ve got nothing against daylight. I don’t live totally nocturnally. Only when I feel like it. Which is most of the time.
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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Everybody’s got a different way of telling a story – and has different stories to tell.
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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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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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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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What is life but playing with time?
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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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Songwriting’s a weird game.
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If you’re cool, you don’t know nothing about it. It just is, or you ain’t.
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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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Everybody starts by imitating their heroes. For me it was Chuck Berry and Muddy Waters.
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Love has sold more songs than you’ve had hot dinners.
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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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No broken hearts, no broken necks.
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I looked upon myself, in a sort of romantic and silly way, as like a laboratory.
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