I’m not getting old I’m evolving.
KEITH RICHARDSI like it here in Austin. Anybody got a room?
More Keith Richards Quotes
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If you don’t know the blues there’s no point in picking up the guitar and playing rock and roll or any other form of popular music.
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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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It might appear that nothing is happening, but that’s actually when it really happens.
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The rock’s easy, but the roll is another thing.
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Poison’s not bad. It’s a matter of how much.
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You don’t find a style. A style finds you.
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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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Everybody thinks you reach a certain age and you’re a grownup, but it’s not true. Nobody grows up until the day they croak.
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I don’t wave a flag for anything. I’m a musician.
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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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I’m all for a quiet life. I just didn’t get one.
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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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Everybody starts by imitating their heroes. For me it was Chuck Berry and Muddy Waters.
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The idea of retiring is like killing yourself. It’s almost like Hari Kari. I intend to live to a 100 and go down in history.
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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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One of the great things about songwrighting; it’s not an intellectual experience.
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I look for ambiguity when I’m writing because life is ambiguous.
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Songwriting’s a weird game.
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I’m free of hypochondria– although I’ve got everything else.
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Some things get better with age. Like me.
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I occasionally borrow pot from my kids. They do a little weed occasionally. ‘Here, Dad’ – or more likely, ‘Dad, have you got any?’
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Fame has killed more very talented guys than drugs. Jimi Hendrix didn’t die of an overdose, he died of fame.
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I’ve never turned blue in someone else’s bathroom. I consider that the height of bad manners.
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If you’re going to kick authority in the teeth, you might as well use both feet.
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Nobody wants to get old, but nobody wants to die young either.
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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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