To me, the main thing about living on this planet is to know who the hell you are and be real about it. That’s the reason I’m still alive.
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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I’ve got nothing against daylight. I don’t live totally nocturnally. Only when I feel like it. Which is most of the time.
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What is life but playing with time?
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Yes, I’ve been trepanned. That’s quite an interesting experience, especially for my brain surgeon, who saw my thoughts flying around in my brain.
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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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Everyone talks about rock these days; the problem is they forget about the roll.
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If you stay up, you get the songs that everyone else misses because they’re asleep.
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I’m free of hypochondria– although I’ve got everything else.
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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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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 don’t encourage anybody to do what I do, you know? Why should you? More for me!
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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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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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If you are going to get wasted, then get wasted elegantly.
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Songwriting’s a weird game.
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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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