Why would you want to be anything else if you’re Mick Jagger?
KEITH RICHARDSNobody wants to get old, but nobody wants to die young either.
More Keith Richards Quotes
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Rock and roll ain’t nothing but jazz with a hard backbeat.
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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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I looked upon myself, in a sort of romantic and silly way, as like a laboratory.
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I’m all for a quiet life. I just didn’t get one.
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I’m not getting old I’m evolving.
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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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The rock’s easy, but the roll is another thing.
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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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One of the great things about songwrighting; it’s not an intellectual experience.
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One minute I’m standing at Ronnie Scott’s getting a standing ovation and the next minute, I’m on a marble slab
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When you are growing up there are two institutional places that affect you most powerfully: the church, which belongs to God, and the public library, which belongs to you.
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Some things get better with age. Like me.
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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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A painter’s got a canvas. The writer’s got reams of empty paper. A musician has silence.
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