I mean some doctor told me I had six months to live and I went to their funeral.
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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We age not by holding on to youth, but by letting ourselves grow and embracing whatever youthful parts remain.
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You know, the BBC had not been particularly generous in its deliverance of blues and esoteric kinds of music.
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I haven’t stopped smoking; anything.
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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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Music is a necessity. After food, air, water and warmth, music is the next necessity of life.
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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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Women are a beautiful complication, and I look forward to far more beauties and far more complications.
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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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You can’t accuse me of anything I haven’t already confessed to.
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You don’t find a style. A style finds you.
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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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If you’ve gotta think about being cool, you ain’t cool.
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Nobody wants to get old, but nobody wants to die young either.
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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 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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