If you’re cool, you don’t know nothing about it. It just is, or you ain’t.
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 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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I’m all for a quiet life. I just didn’t get one.
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Let me be clear about this. I don’t have a drug problem. I have a police problem.
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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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Why would you want to be anything else if you’re Mick Jagger?
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George Jones is a national treasure and should be treated accordingly. A unique style so often emulated even inadvertently.
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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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I mean, give me a guitar, give me a piano, give me a broom and string, I wouldn’t get bored anywhere.
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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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Guitar is easy, all it takes is 5 fingers, 6 strings and 1 a**hole.
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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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I don’t wave a flag for anything. I’m a musician.
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Retire? I can’t spell the word. I’d play in a wheelchair.
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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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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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