I’m all for a quiet life. I just didn’t get one.
KEITH RICHARDSGeorge Jones is a national treasure and should be treated accordingly. A unique style so often emulated even inadvertently.
More Keith Richards Quotes
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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 don’t wave a flag for anything. I’m a musician.
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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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Anything you throw yourself into, you better get yourself out of.
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Songwriting’s a weird game.
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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.
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I like it here in Austin. Anybody got a room?
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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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You have the sun, you have the moon, you have the air that you breathe – and you have the Rolling Stones!
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Some things get better with age. Like me.
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What is life but playing with time?
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It’s a privilege just to wake up to a new day.
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Everybody’s got a different way of telling a story – and has different stories to tell.
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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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It’s great to be here. It’s great to be anywhere.
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