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.
KEITH RICHARDSI’ve got nothing against daylight. I don’t live totally nocturnally. Only when I feel like it. Which is most of the time.
More Keith Richards Quotes
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A painter’s got a canvas. The writer’s got reams of empty paper. A musician has silence.
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You can’t accuse me of anything I haven’t already confessed to.
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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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Retire? I can’t spell the word. I’d play in a wheelchair.
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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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It’s great to be here. It’s great to be anywhere.
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I look for ambiguity when I’m writing because life is ambiguous.
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I’m an unpure purist, something like that.
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I have no idea what the audience makes of me.
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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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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 don’t regret nothing.
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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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Some people think I’m a mythical genius, others think I’m a junkie madman.
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To me, my biggest fear is getting a big head, and that is when I get the hammer. Because it’s very easy in this game to believe you’re something special.
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