I never plan anything, which is probably the difference between Mick and myself. Mick needs to know what he’s gonna do tomorrow and I’m just happy to wake up to see who’s hanging around. Mick’s rock and I’m roll.
KEITH RICHARDSFame has killed more very talented guys than drugs. Jimi Hendrix didn’t die of an overdose, he died of fame.
More Keith Richards Quotes
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It’s a privilege just to wake up to a new day.
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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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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.
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Music works in mysterious ways. Once it goes in you have no idea what it can do to you.
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I achieved everything I wanted to achieve by being in the Rolling Stones and making records.
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I was in awe sometimes listening to Mick Taylor . Everything was there in his playing – the melodic touch, a beautiful sustain and a way of reading a song.
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But I’m not here just to make records and money. I’m here to say something and to touch other people, sometimes in a cry of desperation: “Do you know this feeling?
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I’m not getting old I’m evolving.
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Everybody starts by imitating their heroes. For me it was Chuck Berry and Muddy Waters.
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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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Whatever side I take, I know well that I will be blamed.
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The rock’s easy, but the roll is another thing.
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Women are a beautiful complication, and I look forward to far more beauties and far more complications.
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[John] Belushi was an extreme experience even by my standards.
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Everyone talks about rock these days; the problem is they forget about the roll.
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