I don’t wave a flag for anything. I’m a musician.
KEITH RICHARDSWhat’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.
More Keith Richards Quotes
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Why would you want to be anything else if you’re Mick Jagger?
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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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Let me be clear about this. I don’t have a drug problem. I have a police problem.
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No broken hearts, no broken necks.
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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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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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I never thought I was wasted, but I probably was.
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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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Whatever side I take, I know well that I will be blamed.
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I looked upon myself, in a sort of romantic and silly way, as like a laboratory.
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If you say I’m great, thank you very much. But I know what I am. I could be better, man, you know?
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I haven’t stopped smoking; anything.
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To me, life is a wild animal. You hope to deal with it when it leaps at you.
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If you are going to get wasted, then get wasted elegantly.
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I achieved everything I wanted to achieve by being in the Rolling Stones and making records.
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