If you say I’m great, thank you very much. But I know what I am. I could be better, man, you know?
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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I looked upon myself, in a sort of romantic and silly way, as like a laboratory.
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I was number 1 on the who’s likely to die list for 10 years. I was really disappointed when I fell off that list.
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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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We age not by holding on to youth, but by letting ourselves grow and embracing whatever youthful parts remain.
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You see, to me, the art of music is listening to it, not playing it. The real art of it is hearing it.
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No broken hearts, no broken necks.
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And then I think we realized, like any young guys, that blues are not learned in a monastery. You’ve got to go out there and get your heart broke and then come back and then you can sing the blues.
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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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You know, the BBC had not been particularly generous in its deliverance of blues and esoteric kinds of music.
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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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True friends. Hardest thing to find, but you never look for them – they found you ; you just grow into each other
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I’m an unpure purist, something like that.
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I’ve never had a problem with drugs. I’ve had problems with the police.
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Why would you want to be anything else if you’re Mick Jagger?
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I am not doing it just for the money or for you. I am doing it for me.
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